Installation And Setup - Novell SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 HEARTBEAT Manual

Installation and Setup

A Heartbeat cluster can be installed and configured using YaST. During the Heartbeat
installation, you are prompted for information that is necessary for Heartbeat to function
properly. This chapter contains information to help you install, set up, and configure a
Heartbeat cluster. Learn about the hardware and software requirements and which
preparations to take before installing Heartbeat. Find detailed information about the
installation process and the configuration of a STONITH device.
NOTE: Installing Heartbeat Software Packages on Cluster Nodes
This Heartbeat installation program does not copy the Heartbeat software
package to cluster nodes. Prior to running the installation program, the Heart-
beat software package must be installed on all nodes that will be part of your
cluster. This can be done during the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 installation,
or after.
The Heartbeat installation program lets you create a new cluster or add nodes to an
existing cluster. To add new nodes to an existing cluster, you must run the installation
program from a node that is already in the cluster, not on a node that you want to add
to the cluster.
After installing Heartbeat, you need to create and configure cluster resources. You
might also need to create file systems on a shared disk (Storage Area Network, SAN)
if they do not already exist and, if necessary, configure those file systems as Heartbeat
cluster resources.
Both cluster-aware (OCFS 2) and non-cluster-aware file systems can be configured
with Heartbeat. See the Oracle Cluster File System 2 Administration Guide [http://
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