Installation guide

Introduction
This document provides information about installing, configuring and managing Red Hat High
Availability Add-On components. Red Hat High Availability Add-On components allow you to connect
a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. In this document, the
use of the word cluster or clusters is used to refer to a group of computers running the Red Hat High
Availability Add-On.
The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, refer to the following resources:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the deployment,
configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
For more information about the High Availability Add-On and related products for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6, refer to the following resources:
High Availability Add-On Overview — Provides a high-level overview of the Red Hat High Availability
Add-On.
Logical Volume Manager Administration — Provides a description of the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered environment.
Global File System 2: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS2 (Red Hat Global File System 2), which is included in
the Resilient Storage Add-On.
DM Multipath — Provides information about using the Device-Mapper Multipath feature of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.
Load Balancer Administration — Provides information on configuring high-performance systems
and services with the Load Balancer Add-On, a set of integrated software components that
provide Linux Virtual Servers (LVS) for balancing IP load across a set of real servers.
Release Notes — Provides information about the current release of Red Hat products.
Red Hat Cluster Suite documentation and other Red Hat documents are available in HTML, PDF, and
RPM versions on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation CD and online at
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/.
1. Document Convent ions
This manual uses several conventions to highlight certain words and phrases and draw attention to
specific pieces of information.
1.1. T ypographic Convent ions
Four typographic conventions are used to call attention to specific words and phrases. These
conventions, and the circumstances they apply to, are as follows.
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