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1.3. Pacemaker Overview

The High Availability Add-On cluster infrastructure provides the basic functions for a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. Once a cluster is formed using the cluster infrastructure, you can use other components to suit your clustering needs (for example, setting up a cluster for sharing files on a GFS2 file system or setting up service failover). The cluster infrastructure performs the following functions:
  • Cluster management
  • Lock management
  • Fencing
  • Cluster configuration management