Installing Red Hat Cluster Software; Configuring Red Hat Cluster Software - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

Chapter 1. Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview
Figure 1.1. Red Hat Cluster Hardware Overview

1.1.2. Installing Red Hat Cluster software

To install Red Hat Cluster software, you must have entitlements for the software. If you are using
the Conga configuration GUI, you can let it install the cluster software. If you are using other tools
to configure the cluster, secure and install the software as you would with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
software.

1.1.3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster Software

Configuring Red Hat Cluster software consists of using configuration tools to specify the relationship
Figure 1.2, "Cluster Configuration Structure"
among the cluster components. shows an example of the
hierarchical relationship among cluster nodes, high-availability services, and resources. The cluster
nodes are connected to one or more fencing devices. Nodes can be grouped into a failover domain for
a cluster service. The services comprise resources such as NFS exports, IP addresses, and shared
GFS partitions.
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