Introduction to High-Availability Clusters On Linux And Other Systems

Table of contents

• Increasing The "Uptime" Of Services
• High-Availability Vocabulary (part I)
• High-Availability Vocabulary (Part II)
• HA Cluster Software - Roles
• Cluster Hardware
  • Cluster Server Machines
  • Disk Storage
  • Networking Equipment
  • Power-Control Hardware
• Active-Passive Cluster Operation
  • Choosing The Active Node For A Service
  • Administrator-Initiated Fail-Over
  • Cluster Monitoring
  • Fail-Over During Active-Node Failure
  • The Split-Brain Problem
    • The SCSI Reservation Mechanism
    • The STONITH Mechanism
• Active-Active Cluster Operation
  • Shared File-Systems
  • Load Balancing
• Cluster Stability Vs. Fast Failure Recovery
• Cluster Software On Linux
  • The HeartBeat (V2) Cluster
  • RedHat Cluster Suite
  • Oracle RAC
• Clusters On Other Operating Systems
  • The Microsoft Cluster
  • Veritas Cluster Server
  • Sun Cluster
  • HACMP Cluster (AIX)
• References

Originally written by guy keren