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

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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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