Introduction - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION Manual

Introduction

This document provides information about installing, configuring, and managing Red Hat Virtual Linux
Server (LVS) components. LVS provides load balancing through specialized routing techniques that
dispatch traffic to a pool of servers. This document does not include information about installing,
configuring, and managing Red Hat Cluster software. Information about that is in a separate
document.
The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.
This document is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, Linux Virtual Server Overview
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Chapter 2, Initial LVS Configuration
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Chapter 3, Setting Up LVS
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Chapter 4, Configuring the LVS Routers with Piranha Configuration Tool
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Appendix A, Using LVS with Red Hat Cluster
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For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the following resources:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the deployment,
configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
For more information about Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the following
resources:
• Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview — Provides a high level overview of the Red Hat Cluster Suite.
• Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster — Provides information about installing, configuring
and managing Red Hat Cluster components.
• Logical Volume Manager Administration — Provides a description of the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered environment.
• Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).
• Global File System 2: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS2 (Red Hat Global File System 2).
• Using Device-Mapper Multipath — Provides information about using the Device-Mapper Multipath
feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Using GNBD with Global File System — Provides an overview on using Global Network Block
Device (GNBD) with Red Hat GFS.
• Red Hat Cluster Suite Release Notes — Provides information about the current release of Red Hat
Cluster Suite.
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