This how to describes an easy step by step installation of the RedHat Cluster Suite on three CentOS nodes and prepare them as nodes of a cluster. You will also install the Management suite which is web based and is known as Conga. You will use three nodes to form the cluster and one node [...]

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (CentOS 5.4) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (CentOS 5.4 as well) will be able to access the storage [...]

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), [...]

This article explains how to set up an LVS cluster of load balanced virtual servers with Heartbeat and Ldirectord On CentOS 5.3.The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache/IIS web servers that hold the same content. Not only does the load balancer distribute the requests to the two backend Apache/IIS [...]