Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview
Clustered systems provide reliability, scalability, and availability to critical production services. Using
Red Hat Cluster Suite, you can create a cluster to suit your needs for performance, high availability,
load balancing, scalability, file sharing, and economy. This chapter provides an overview of Red Hat
Cluster Suite components and functions, and consists of the following sections:
• Section 1.1, “Cluster Basics”
• Section 1.2, “Red Hat Cluster Suite Introduction”
• Section 1.3, “Cluster Infrastructure”
• Section 1.4, “High-availability Service Management”
• Section 1.5, “Red Hat GFS”
• Section 1.6, “Cluster Logical Volume Manager”
• Section 1.7, “Global Network Block Device”
• Section 1.8, “Linux Virtual Server”
• Section 1.9, “Cluster Administration Tools”
• Section 1.10, “Linux Virtual Server Administration GUI”
