Ebook: The Linux Enterprise Cluster: build a highly available cluster with commodity hardware and free software

Technical Reviewers; Brief Contents; Contents In Detail; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Primer; Cluster Resources; Starting Services; Handling Packets; Compiling The Kernel; High Availability; Synchronizing Servers With Rysnc And Ssh; Cloning Systems With Systemimager; Heartbeat Introduction And Theory; A Sample Heartbeat Configuration; Heartbeat Resources And Maintenance; Stonith And Ipfail; Cluster Theory And Practice; How To Build A Linux Enterprise Cluster; The Linux Virtual Server: Introduction And Theory; The Lvs-nat Cluster; The Lvs-dr Cluster; The Load Balancer.;The Linux Enterprise Cluster shows how to turn a number of inexpensive networked computers into one powerful server. Learn how to: build a high-availability server pair using Heartbeat, use the Linux Virtual Server load balancing software, configure a reliable printing system in a Linux cluster environment, and build a job scheduling system in Linux with no single point of failure. The CD includes the Linux kernel, ldirectord, Mon, Ganglia, OpenSSH, rsync, SystemImager, Heartbeat, and all figures and illustrations used in the book.