Documentation

Core Documentation

Our core documentation is located at http://clusterlabs.org/doc and consists of a step-by-step guide called "Clusters from Scratch" and the dry but exhaustive "Pacemaker Explained" which documents every option and concept in Pacemaker. Both documents are version specific (things have changed a bit over the years) and have been translated into several languages.

There is even a version of "Clusters from Scratch" for the LCMC GUI: HTML Single HTML PDF

Books about Pacemaker

• Clusterbau: Hochverfügbarkeit mit pacemaker, OpenAIS, heartbeat und LVS by Michael Schwartzkopff (in German)
• A Practical Guide to XEN High Availability by Sander van Vugt

Relevant Site Pages

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Online Man Pages
• Debugging Resource Failures
• Resources for developers

Howtos

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Externally Hosted Documentation

• Novell has also written some useful documentation for the SLES11 HA Extension
• The LCMC version of the Clusters from Scratch HTML Single HTML PDF

Link Collection

• Step-by-step clustering guides from linode.com for Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. Guides include basic IP failover, DRBD and web applications.
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• Tips on avoiding STONITH Death-matches
• Setup details for common Pacemaker use cases (on Ubuntu)
• Getting started guide for Pacemaker on Heartbeat with Debian
  • DRBD, GFS2, OCFS2, Samba, Load Balancing
• Firewall Configuration Builder
• DRBD+Pacemaker Howto for openSUSE 11.1
• Setup guide for Pacemaker and OpenNebula (DRBD, MySQL, LVM)
• Project Stats
• Using pacemaker with Lustre
• Options for clustering MySQL (slidedeck)
• High Availability in 37 Easy Steps (slidedeck) (audio: ogg, mp3) (also available on slideshare.net)
• MySQL with Pacemaker (Linbit webinar, requires registration)
• RabbitMQ - High Availability with Pacemaker and DRBD
• Making OpenNMS highly available with Pacemaker
• Nice walkthrough of Xen+DRBD on Debian
• Evoluzione dell’alta affidabilità su Linux (An Italian article series from http://www.miamammausalinux.org):
  • Come orientarsi fra Hertbeat, Pacemaker, OpenAIS e Corosync
  • Confronto pratico tra Heartbeat classico ed Heartbeat con Pacemaker
  • Realizzare un NAS con Pacemaker, DRBD ed exportfs

Documentation For Older Releases

• For Pacemaker 0.6 and Heartbeat 2.1.x
  • Configuration 0.6 Explained
  • Novell has also written some useful GUI-centric documentation for SLES10
  • There is an IBM RedBook that some may find useful
  • Some (horribly obsolete) documentation can still be found on the Heartbeat site.