Red Hat GFS 6.1 -, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 2.
System Requirements
This chapter describes the system requirements for Red Hat GFS Release 6.1 and consists
of the following sections:
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Section 2.1 Platform Requirements
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Section 2.2 Red Hat Cluster Suite
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Section 2.3 Fencing
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Section 2.4 Fibre Channel Storage Network
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Section 2.5 Fibre Channel Storage Devices
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Section 2.6 Network Power Switches
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Section 2.7 Console Access
2.1. Platform Requirements
Table 2-1 shows the platform requirements for GFS.
Operating System Hardware
Architecture
RAM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES,
or WS, Version 4 or later
ia64, x86-64, x86
SMP supported
256 MB, minimum
Table 2-1. Platform Requirements
2.2. Red Hat Cluster Suite
Red Hat GFS runs with Red Hat Cluster Suite 4.0 or later. The Red Hat Cluster Suite
software must be installed on the cluster nodes before you can install and run Red Hat
GFS.
Note
Red Hat Cluster Suite 4.0 provides the infrastructure for application failover in the cluster
and network communication among GFS nodes (and other Red Hat Cluster Suite nodes).