Installation guide

Introduction

This document provides information about installing, configuring and managing Red Hat Cluster

components. Red Hat Cluster components are part of Red Hat Cluster Suite and allow you to

connect a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. This

document does not include information about installing, configuring, and managing Linux Virtual

Server (LVS) software. Information about that is in a separate document.

The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat Enter-

prise Linux and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.

This document is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview

• Chapter 2, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga

• Chapter 3, Managing Red Hat Cluster With Conga

• Chapter 4, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster

• Chapter 5, Managing Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster

• Appendix A, Example of Setting Up Apache HTTP Server

• Appendix B, Fence Device Parameters

• Appendix C, Upgrading A Red Hat Cluster from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the following resources:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the deploy-

ment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

For more information about Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the

following resources:

• Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview — Provides a high level overview of the Red Hat Cluster

Suite.

• LVM Administrator's Guide: Configuration and Administration — Provides a description of

the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered en-

vironment.

• Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about in-

stalling, configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).

• Using GNBD with Global File System — Provides an overview on using Global Network

Block Device (GNBD) with Red Hat GFS.