Clustering Linux Servers with the Concurrent Deployment of HP Serviceguard Linux and Red Hat Global File System for RHEL5, October 2008

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Red Hat Global File System is a cluster file system that allows a cluster of nodes to
simultaneously access a block device that is shared among nodes
GULM
Grand Unified Lock Manager, one of the methods of locking in Red Hat GFS 6.1
HA
High Availability
iLO
HP Integrated Lights Out
Legacy package
Package Configuration pre-11.18
LVM
Logical volume management facilities on Linux
LVM2
A new user space tool set that provides logical volume management facilities on Linux
LAN
Local Area Network
Modular package
Single package configuration file, introduced in Serviceguard A.11.18. The package
configuration information is included in only the package configuration (ASCII) file,
whereas in pre-11.18 packages configuration information is in both the package ASCII
file and the package control script.
NIC
Network Interface Card
RHCS
The Red Hat Cluster Suite is an integrated set of software components that can be
deployed to suite your needs for performance, high-availability, load balancing,
scalability, file sharing and economy.
RHEL5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
RHEL4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
SAN
Storage Area Network
XML
The Extensible Markup Language is a general-purpose specification for creating custom
markup languages.