Red Hat High Availability Add-On Documentation Guide

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Red Hat provides a variety of documentation for planning, configuring, and maintaining a Red Hat high availability cluster. The following articles provide guided indexes to the various areas of Red Hat cluster documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later.

Design Guidance

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Design Guidance provides an annotated listing of articles laying out the issues to take into account when designing a Red Hat high availability cluster.

Support Policies

Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters provides an index of articles detailing Red Hat's support policies for the implementation of Pacemaker clusters.

Getting Started

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Getting Started with Red Hat High Availability Clusters provides a listing of documentation describing the basic cluster components and cluster tools, and links to exercises to work through to learn how to configure a basic cluster.

Deployment Examples

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Deployment Examples for RHEL High Availability Clusters provides an index of sample configuration procedures for common Pacemaker deployments.

Administrative Procedures

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Basic Administrative Procedures provides links to self-contained procedures for cluster configuration and administration.

Testing and Troubleshooting

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Testing and Troubleshooting Procedures provides an index to documentation for diagnostic procedures you can use to diagnose and address issues in a cluster.

Fencing and Fence Agents

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Fence Device Configuration provides an index of available documentation for fence device configuration

Advanced Concepts

RHEL High Availability Documentation: Advanced Concepts and Procedures provides a listing of documentation for articles describing cluster internals as well as more advanced cluster configuration procedures.

GFS2 File Systems

RHEL High Availability Documentation: GFS2 File Systems provides a listing of documentation for the GFS2 file system, which is the shared file system used in active-active cluster deployments .

Product Documentation


General product documentation for Red Hat High Availability clusters can be found at the following links.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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