How does the communication between the cluster nodes work on a Red Hat Enterprise High Availability Cluster?

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Introduction

This article describes how the underlying protocol called Totem is used to provide group messaging for Red Hat High Availability. This article uses the word processor for cluster node.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, and 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • corosync for RHEL 6 or 7
  • ...

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