Red Hat Cluster Tutorial
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Contents |
- 1 What's New?
- 2 The Task Ahead
- 2.1 A Note on Patience
- 2.2 Technologies We Will Use
- 2.3 A Note on Hardware
- 2.4 System Requirements
- 2.5 Recommended Hardware; A Little More Detail
- 2.5.1 The Most Important Consideration - Storage
- 2.5.2 RAM - Preparing for Degradation
- 2.5.3 Never Over-Provision!
- 2.5.4 CPU Cores - Possibly Acceptable Over-Provisioning
- 2.5.5 Six Network Interfaces, Seriously?
- 2.5.6 Network Switches
- 2.5.7 Why Switched PDUs?
- 2.5.8 Network Managed UPSes Are Worth It
- 2.5.9 Dashboard Servers
- 2.6 What You Should Know Before Beginning
- 2.7 A Word on Complexity
- 3 Overview of Components
- 4 Node Installation
- 5 Network
- 6 Let's Build!
- 6.1 Why so Much Duplication of Commands?
- 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Specific Steps
- 6.3 Add the Alteeve's Niche! Repo
- 6.4 Update the OS
- 6.5 Installing Required Programs
- 6.6 Switch Network Daemons
- 6.7 Altering Which Daemons Start on Boot
- 6.8 Network Security
- 6.9 Configuring iptables
- 6.10 Mapping Physical Network Interfaces to ethX Device Names
- 6.11 Configuring our Bridge, Bonds and Interfaces
- 6.12 Loading the New Network Configuration
- 6.13 Adding Everything to /etc/hosts
- 6.14 What is IPMI
- 6.15 Setting up SSH
- 6.16 Setting Up UPS Monitoring
- 6.17 Monitoring Storage
- 7 Configuring The Cluster Foundation
- 7.1 Keeping Time in Sync
- 7.2 Alternate Configuration Methods
- 7.3 The First cluster.conf Foundation Configuration
- 7.3.1 Name the Cluster and Set the Configuration Version
- 7.3.2 Configuring cman Options
- 7.3.3 Defining Cluster Nodes
- 7.3.4 Defining Fence Devices
- 7.3.5 Using the Fence Devices
- 7.3.6 Giving Nodes More Time to Start and Avoiding "Fence Loops"
- 7.3.7 Configuring Totem
- 7.3.8 Validating and Pushing the /etc/cluster/cluster.conf File
- 7.3.9 Setting up ricci
- 7.3.10 Starting the Cluster for the First Time
- 7.4 Testing Fencing
- 8 Installing DRBD
- 9 Initializing Clustered Storage
- 10 Managing Storage In The Cluster
- 11 Testing Network Redundancy
- 12 Provisioning Virtual Machines
- 12.1 Before We Begin - Building a Dashboard
- 12.2 A Note on the Following Server Installations
- 12.3 Provision Planning
- 12.4 Provisioning vm01-win2008
- 12.5 Provisioning vm02-win2012
- 12.6 Provisioning vm03-win7
- 12.7 Provisioning vm04-win8
- 12.8 Provisioning vm05-freebsd9
- 12.9 Provisioning vm06-solaris11
- 12.10 Provisioning vm07-rhel6
- 12.11 Provisioning vm08-sles11
- 13 Making Our VMs Highly Available Cluster Services
- 13.1 Creating the Ordered Fail-Over Domains
- 13.2 Making vm01-win2008 a Highly Available Service
- 13.3 Making vm02-win2012 a Highly Available Service
- 13.4 Making vm03-win7 a Highly Available Service
- 13.5 Making vm04-win8 a Highly Available Service
- 13.6 Making vm05-freebsd9 a Highly Available Service
- 13.7 Making vm06-solaris11 a Highly Available Service
- 13.8 Making vm07-rhel6 a Highly Available Service
- 13.9 Making vm08-sles11 a Highly Available Service
- 14 Setting Up Alerts
- 15 Testing Server Recovery
- 16 Troubleshooting
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