Installation guide

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:

• Section 3.1 Software Installation and Conﬁguration Tasks

• Section 3.2 Overview of the Cluster Conﬁguration Tool

• Section 3.3 Installing the Red Hat Cluster Suite Packages

• Section 3.4 Starting the Cluster Conﬁguration Tool

• Section 3.5 Naming The Cluster

• Section 3.6 Conﬁguring Fence Devices

• Section 3.7 Adding and Deleting Members

• Section 3.8 Conﬁguring a Failover Domain

• Section 3.9 Adding Cluster Resources

• Section 3.10 Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster

• Section 3.11 Propagating The Conﬁguration File: New Cluster

• Section 3.12 Starting the Cluster Software

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.

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

b. 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.