RHEL High Availability Documentation: Design Guidance

NOTE: For a general overview of the documentation available for the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, see the Red Hat High Availability Add-On Documentation Guide.

Before configuring a Red Hat high-availability cluster, there are many design decisions to make regarding how you want the cluster to respond on failure. You may find the following articles useful when planning the design of your cluster components.

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General design guidance

• Planning Fence Configuration in a Red Hat High Availability Cluster
• Membership Layout and Member System Specifications
• LVM logical volumes in a Red Hat high availability cluster
• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Selecting a transport protocol

Design guidance for configuring virtual machines as cluster members

• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines as Cluster Members
• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - VMware Virtual Machines as Cluster Members

Design guidance for configuring IBM z/VM instances as cluster members

• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - IBM z/VM Instances as Cluster Members
• Administrative Procedures for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Configuring z/VM SMAPI Fencing with fence_zvmip for RHEL 7 or 8 IBM z Systems Cluster Members
• Administrative Procedures for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Preparing a dasd Storage Device for Use by a Cluster of IBM z Systems Members
• RHEL High Availability cluster nodes on IBM z Systems experience STONITH-device timeouts around midnight on a nightly basis

Additional configuration and design documentation

• Configuring IBM DB2 in pacemaker cluster (Preview only)
• SAP Netweaver
• SAP HANA
• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Considerations with qdevice Quorum Arbitration
• Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters - sbd Considerations