How To Use This Manual

This manual contains information about setting up the cluster hardware, and installing the Linux distribution and the cluster software. These tasks are described in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.

For information about setting up and managing cluster services, see Chapter 4. For information about managing a cluster, see Chapter 8.

Appendix A contains detailed configuration information on specific hardware devices and shared storage configurations. Appendix B contains background information on the cluster software and other related information.