Software Requirements; Shared Disk System Requirements; Installing Heartbeat - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

• At least one communications medium (Ethernet, etc.) that allows cluster nodes to
communicate with each other

13.2 Software Requirements

Ensure that the following software requirements are met:
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 installed on all nodes that will be part of the Heartbeat
2 cluster
• The Heartbeat 2 software package installed to all nodes that will be part of the
Heartbeat cluster.
13.3 Shared Disk System
A shared disk system (Storage Area Network, or SAN) is recommended for your cluster
if you want data to be highly available. If a shared disk subsystem is used, ensure the
following:
• The shared disk system is properly set up and functional according to the manufac-
turer's instructions.
• Novell recommends that the disks contained in the shared disk system are configured
to use mirroring or RAID to add fault tolerance to the shared disk system.
• If you are using iSCSI for shared disk system access, ensure that you have properly
configured iSCSI initiators and targets.

13.4 Installing Heartbeat 2

1 At the Linux server console of one server, type yast2 heartbeat to start
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the Heartbeat 2 installation program.
You must be logged in as root to access the cluster configuration screen.