Installation guide

fencing mechanism are encapsulated within the <fence> tag. Each fencing mechanism is
defined by the <method> tag.
Please refer to the man pages of fence as well as the man pages for the chosen fencing
mechanisms for further details.
5.6 Local root Cluster Installation
For a cluster with a local root file system configuration, the following steps must be performed
on every cluster node:
1. Install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system
2. Install the required cluster packages
3. Perform the required OS customizations
4. Perform the required network configurations
5. Perform the local storage configuration procedure
6. On one node only, create a cluster configuration file and copy the file to all other
cluster members.
7. On every cluster node, start the cman init script:
# service cman start
8. To verify the changes have been propagated, the version number and cluster status
can be viewed on any node at any time using cman_tool.
# cman_tool status
9. The state of all cluster nodes can be viewed with the following command:
# cman_tool nodes
5.7 Shared Root Cluster Installation
Note that the shared root cluster installation is based on the open-sharedroot project. Please
reference http://open-sharedroot.org/ for detailed information.
For a shared root file system configuration, the following steps must be performed:
On one node only:
1. Install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system
2. Install the required cluster packages
3. Perform the required OS customizations
4. Perform the required network configurations
5. Performed the required storage configurations
6. Create a cluster configuration file with shared root configuration settings
7. Install the required shared root software packages
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