How to set up highly available NFS with Red Hat Cluster Suite and RHEL 5?

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Issue

  • Need to set up highly available NFS
  • Need clients to connect to an NFS service that can gracefully fail over to another system should the node providing the NFS service fail
  • Would like a step by step guide illustrating how to set up such a service

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through RHEL 5.9
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) entitlement or Advanced Platform
  • 2 or more nodes to cluster
  • Supported fence devices available for each node
  • Shared storage provided by Fibre Channel or iSCSI

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