HP Cluster Management Utility CMU Installation Guide with Serviceguard Version 4.0 (May 2009)

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Preface
1-1 About this document
This guide describes how to install HP’s Cluster Management Utility (CMU) V 4.0 under
control of Serviceguard on HP systems.
1-2 Intended audience
This guide is intended primarily for system managers and operators who want to configure or
manage a large collection of systems in a HPC Cluster Architecture (called cluster in this
document). Users should be familiar with:
• the installation and administration of RedHat Linux or SuSE Linux. Distribution-specific
commands will not be detailed.
• The installation of “classic” CMU;
• The installation and configuration of Serviceguard.
It is not the purpose of this document to explain details of Serviceguard. Please refer to
Serviceguard documentation at this link: http://docs.hp.com/en/B9903-90054/index.html
1-3 Related documents
The following documents should be used as reference:
• "Cluster Management Utility User's Guide" describes the use of HP’s cluster
management software.
• “Cluster Management Utility Hardware Preparation Guide” describes required
hardware settings.
• Appropriate Operating System Installation and User Documentation.
• Serviceguard documentation at this link: http://docs.hp.com/en/B9903-
90054/index.html
1-4 Terminology
Table 1 Terminology
Term Definition
CMU Cluster
Collection of commodity servers or workstations linked by a network,
in order to build a distributed memory supercomputer. This
architecture is commonly called a HPC cluster, running the Linux
operating system.
CMU Management
Cluster
A server pair configured as a Serviceguard cluster dedicated to
CMU management fiunctions.
Node
A node, formally a compute node, is a single machine (server or
workstation) which runs a Linux operating system. Each node is a
member of the whole cluster.