12.6.1 HA in General and Heartbeat

The primary source for information about high availability under Linux is the home page of the Linux-HA project (https://linux-ha.org). This contains a wide range of tips and links to documentation, reports, and scenarios.

For information in print about high availability see Blueprints in High Availability:

Marcus, Evan & Stern, Hal: Blueprints in High Availability. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2000. (ISBN 0-471-35601-8)

There is a very detailed redpaper for Linux on IBM System z with a wide range of sample scenarios and configurations at https://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpaperAbstracts/redp0220.html.

A Wiki relating to HA and heartbeat: https://wiki.trick.ca/linux-ha/PressRoom and https://wiki.trick.ca/linux-ha/HeartbeatTutorials

12.6.2 DRBD

The home page for the DRBD project is https://www.drbd.org/. A useful article in the Linux magazine is available at https://www.linux-mag.com/2003-11/drbd_01.html.

12.6.3 RAID

A detailed collection of links relating to the topic of RAID: https://linas.org/linux/raid.html

12.6.4 Clustering

The Linux Clustering Information Center home page offers further information about clustering at https://www.lcic.org/. The home page for the Linux Virtual Server project is https://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/.

Find information about the Oracle cluster file system on the project home page at https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/ and detailed documentation under https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/documentation/.