Red Hat Cluster for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
Introduction vii
1. Document Conventions viii
2. Feedback ix
1. Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview . 1
1. Configuration Basics 1
1.1. Setting Up Hardware . 1
1.2. Installing Red Hat Cluster software . 2
1.3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster Software 2
2. Conga . 4
3. system-config-cluster Cluster Administration GUI . 7
3.1. Cluster Configuration Tool 8
3.2. Cluster Status Tool .10
4. Command Line Administration Tools 11
2. Before Configuring a Red Hat Cluster .13
1. Compatible Hardware 13
2. Enabling IP Ports 13
2.1. Enabling IP Ports on Cluster Nodes .13
2.2. Enabling IP Ports on Computers That Run luci 14
2.3. Examples of iptables Rules 15
3. Configuring ACPI For Use with Integrated Fence Devices 17
3.1. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with chkconfig Management 18
3.2. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS .19
3.3. Disabling ACPI Completely in the grub.conf File .21
4. Configuring max_luns 22
5. Considerations for Using Quorum Disk .22
6. Multicast Addresses 24
7. Considerations for Using Conga 24
8. General Configuration Considerations 24
3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga .27
1. Configuration Tasks 27
2. Starting luci and ricci .28
3. Creating A Cluster .29
4. Global Cluster Properties .30
5. Configuring Fence Devices 32
5.1. Creating a Shared Fence Device .34
5.2. Modifying or Deleting a Fence Device 36
6. Configuring Cluster Members .36
6.1. Initially Configuring Members 36
6.2. Adding a Member to a Running Cluster .37
6.3. Deleting a Member from a Cluster .38
7. Configuring a Failover Domain .39
7.1. Adding a Failover Domain .41
7.2. Modifying a Failover Domain .41
8. Adding Cluster Resources .43
9. Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster 45
10. Configuring Cluster Storage .47