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CentOS High Availability

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CentOS High Availability

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
CentOS High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Cluster stack on CentOS Linux


There are endless possibilities and platforms a computer cluster can be installed and configured on and, therefore, also different software building the cluster stack. Since the objectives of this book are to familiarize you with the high-availability cluster running on CentOS Linux, I will present you with the cluster stack software to be used to install and configure a highly available computer cluster on CentOS Linux.

CentOS is a Community Enterprise Operating System. It is a Linux distribution that provides a free enterprise platform. The functionalities of CentOS are compatible with its commercial upstream source: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The current major CentOS version is 7 and was released on July 7, 2014. It offers many changes compared to its predecessor, CentOS version 6. Probably due to this and the fact that CentOS 6 maintenance updates will be supported until November 30, 2020, the majority of CentOS Linux servers still run CentOS version...