Chapter 1. Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview

Chapter 1. Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview

1.1. Configuration Basics
1.1.1. Setting Up Hardware
1.1.2. Installing Red Hat Cluster software
1.1.3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster Software
1.2. Conga
1.3. system-config-cluster Cluster Administration GUI
1.3.1. Cluster Configuration Tool
1.3.2. Cluster Status Tool
1.4. Command Line Administration Tools
1.5. Configuration Considerations

Red Hat Cluster allows you to connect a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. You can use Red Hat Cluster to suit your clustering needs (for example, setting up a cluster for sharing files on a GFS file system or setting up service failover).


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