Chapter 3. Installing and Configuring Red Hat Cluster Suite Software

This chapter describes how to install and configure Red Hat Cluster Suite software and consists of the following sections:

3.1. Software Installation and Configuration Tasks

Installing and configuring Red Hat Cluster Suite software consists of the following steps:

  1. Installing Red Hat Cluster Suite software.

    Refer to Section 3.3 Installing the Red Hat Cluster Suite Packages.

  2. Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool.

    1. Creating a new configuration file or using an existing one.

    2. Choose locking: either DLM or GULM.

    Refer to Section 3.4 Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool.

  3. Naming the cluster. Refer to Section 3.5 Naming The Cluster.

  4. Creating fence devices. Refer to Section 3.6 Configuring Fence Devices.

  5. Creating cluster members. Refer to Section 3.7 Adding and Deleting Members.

  6. Creating failover domains. Refer to Section 3.8 Configuring a Failover Domain.

  7. Creating resources. Refer to Section 3.9 Adding Cluster Resources.

  8. Creating cluster services.

    Refer to Section 3.10 Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster.

  9. Propagating the configuration file to the other nodes in the cluster.

    Refer to Section 3.11 Propagating The Configuration File: New Cluster.

  10. Starting the cluster software. Refer to Section 3.12 Starting the Cluster Software.