Chapter 1. Red Hat High Availability Add-On Configuration and Management Overview
Red Hat High Availability Add-On allows you to connect a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. You can use Red Hat High Availability Add-On to suit your clustering needs (for example, setting up a cluster for sharing files on a GFS2 file system or setting up service failover).
1.1. Configuration Basics
To set up a cluster, you must connect the nodes to certain cluster hardware and configure the nodes into the cluster environment. This chapter provides an overview of cluster configuration and management, and tools available for configuring and managing the Red Hat High Availability Add-On.
Configuring and managing the Red Hat High Availability Add-On consists of the following basic steps:
