Documentation

The Opensharedroot Mini-Howto

Whenever multiple servers share data between each other and especially when those servers have common applications and are attached to a high-speed network a Cluster Filesystem is a good option to share data. Consequently it would be optimal to not only share the data of applications but to share every data which is shareable. That means also the so called root-Filesystem is to be shared.

Description on the open sharedroot Bootprocess

One of the crucial parts of diskless clusters is the bootsequence or the boot process. Therefore this document describes all steps involed in booting a server until the normal initprocess is executed.

NFS sharedroot mini HowTo

HowTo to build a NFS based diskless sharedroot cluster.

RHEL5 GFS Shared Root Mini Howto

This mini howto describes the steps needed to build a RHEL5 GFS based sharedroot Cluster

RHEL5 OCFS2 Shared Root Mini Howto

This mini howto describes the steps needed to build a RHEL5 OCFS2 (above 1.3.9) based open sharedroot Cluster

Userguide for the Open Sharedroot Cluster installation DVD

The installation graphical user interface of the Open Sharedroot cluster installation DVD leads you through the installation of a one node Open Sharedroot Cluster. This guide leads you through the different steps of the installation and points out special configurations and interesting points.

Demo Cluster

With help of VMware's virtualization techniques it is possible to emulate whole cluster infrastructures on a single computer. On this page you will find ready to run Diskless Shared-root Cluster demonstrations.

Diskless Shared Root Cluster Workshop

In this How-to you will find all the information needed to build a Diskless Shared Root Cluster from scratch. This workshop is in German.

Comoonics Desaster Recovery Solution

HowTo for the comoonics desaster recovery solution

Administrator's Handbook

Handbook about Designing, Installation, Configuration and Administration of comoonics diskless shared root clusters (Based on the "TruCluster Server Handbook")