Red Hat High Availability Add-On Documentation Guide
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
- Configuring and managing high availability clusters
- Configuring a high-availability cluster by using the ha-cluster RHEL System Role
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Configuring and managing high availability clusters
- Configuring GFS2 file systems
- Configuring a high-availability cluster by using the ha-cluster RHEL System Role
- Configuring a Red Hat High Availability cluster on Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Configuring and managing high availability clusters
- Configuring GFS2 file systems
- Configuring a high-availability cluster by using the ha-cluster RHEL System Role
- Configuring a Red Hat High Availability cluster on Red Hat OpenStack Platform