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Introduction

This document provides information about installing, configuring, and managing the Load Balancer Add-On components. The Load Balancer Add-On provides load balancing through specialized routing techniques that dispatch traffic to a pool of servers.
The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.
This document is organized as follows:
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, see the following resources:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the deployment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
For more information about the Load Balancer Add-On and related products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, see the following resources:
  • High Availability Add-On Overview — Provides a high-level overview of the High Availability Add-On, Resilient Storage Add-On, and the Load Balancer Add-On.
  • Configuring and Managing the High Availability Add-On Provides information about configuring and managing the High Availability Add-On (also known as Red Hat Cluster) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  • Logical Volume Manager Administration — Provides a description of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered environment.
  • Global File System 2: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing, configuring, and maintaining the Red Hat Resilient Storage Add-On (also known as Red Hat Global File System 2).
  • DM Multipath — Provides information about using the Device-Mapper Multipath feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  • Release Notes — Provides information about the current release of Red Hat products.
This document and other Red Hat documents are available in HTML, PDF, and RPM versions online at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux/.

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