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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Cluster Administration

Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster

Cluster Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Cluster AdministrationConfiguring and Managing a Red Hat ClusterEdition 3

2009 Red Hat Inc.. This material may only be distributed subject to the terms andconditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1.0 or later (the latest version of the OPL ispresently available at

http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/

).Red Hat and the Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the UnitedStates and other countries.All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.1801 Varsity DriveRaleigh, NC 27606-2072 USAPhone: +1 919 754 3700Phone: 888 733 4281Fax: +1 919 754 3701PO Box 13588 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster describes the configuration and management of Red Hatcluster systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It does not include information about Red Hat LinuxVirtual Servers (LVS). Information about installing and configuring LVS is in a separate document.

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1. Document Conventions ................................................................................................... vi1.1. Typographic Conventions ..................................................................................... vi1.2. Pull-quote Conventions ....................................................................................... viii1.3. Notes and Warnings ........................................................................................... viii2. Feedback ....................................................................................................................... ix

1. Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview 1

1.1. ConfigurationBasics ..................................................................................................... 11.1.1. SettingUp Hardware ......................................................................................... 11.1.2. Installing RedHat Cluster software ..................................................................... 21.1.3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster Software ................................................................ 21.2. Conga ......................................................................................................................... 41.3. system-config-cluster Cluster Administration GUI ........................................................... 61.3.1. Cluster Configuration Tool .................................................................................. 71.3.2. Cluster Status Tool ............................................................................................ 81.4. Command LineAdministration Tools ............................................................................. 9

2. Before Configuring a RedHat Cluster11

2.1. Compatible Hardware ................................................................................................. 112.2. Enabling IP Ports ....................................................................................................... 112.2.1. Enabling IP Ports on Cluster Nodes .................................................................. 112.2.2. Enabling IP Ports on Computers That Run luci .................................................. 122.2.3. Examples of iptables Rules .............................................................................. 132.3. Configuring ACPI For Use with Integrated Fence Devices ............................................. 142.3.1. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with chkconfig Management .......................................... 152.3.2. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS .............................................................. 162.3.3. Disabling ACPI Completely in the grub.conf File ................................................ 172.4. Considerationsfor Configuring HA Services ................................................................. 182.5. Configuring max_luns ................................................................................................. 212.6. Considerationsfor Using Quorum Disk ........................................................................ 222.7. Multicast Addresses ................................................................................................... 232.8. Considerations for Using Conga .................................................................................. 232.9. General Configuration Considerations .......................................................................... 24

3. Configuring Red HatCluster With Conga 25

3.1. Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................... 253.2. Starting luci and ricci .................................................................................................. 253.3. Creating A Cluster ...................................................................................................... 273.4. Global ClusterProperties ............................................................................................ 273.5. Configuring Fence Devices ......................................................................................... 303.5.1. Creating a Shared Fence Device ...................................................................... 313.5.2. Modifying or Deleting a Fence Device ............................................................... 333.6. Configuring Cluster Members ...................................................................................... 333.6.1. Initially Configuring Members ............................................................................ 333.6.2. Adding a Member to a Running Cluster ............................................................ 343.6.3. Deletinga Member from a Cluster .................................................................... 353.7. Configuring aFailover Domain .................................................................................... 363.7.1. Adding a Failover Domain ................................................................................ 373.7.2. Modifying aFailover Domain ............................................................................ 383.8. Adding Cluster Resources .......................................................................................... 393.9. Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster....................................................................... 393.10. Configuring Cluster Storage ...................................................................................... 41

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