Installation guide

Chapter 2. System Requirements

This chapter describes the system requirements for Red Hat GFS with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5 and consists of the following sections:

• Section 1, “Platform Requirements”

• Section 2, “Red Hat Cluster Suite”

• Section 3, “Fencing”

• Section 4, “Fibre Channel Storage Network”

• Section 5, “Fibre Channel Storage Devices”

• Section 6, “Network Power Switches”

• Section 7, “Console Access”

1. Platform Requirements

Table 2.1, “Platform Requirements” shows the platform requirements for GFS.

Operating System Hardware Architecture RAM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, or

WS, Version 4 or later

ia64, x86-64, x86

SMP supported

256 MB, minimum

Table 2.1. Platform Requirements

2. Red Hat Cluster Suite

Red Hat GFS runs with Red Hat Cluster Suite 4.0 or later. The Red Hat Cluster Suite software

must be installed on the cluster nodes before you can install and run Red Hat GFS.

Note

Red Hat Cluster Suite 4.0 and later provides the infrastructure for application fail-

over in the cluster and network communication among GFS nodes (and other Red

Hat Cluster Suite nodes).

3. Fencing

You must configure each GFS node in your Red Hat cluster for at least one form of fencing.