Product: 1593270364

This book covers the material thoroughly. It’s detailed, specific and the writing style is among the more pleasant I’ve encountered in a technical book of this sort. In its day this was probably THE book to have on the subject of clustering Linux servers. Unfortunately, it seems to have been published just ahead of the arrival of heartbeat version 2. Version 2 of heartbeat still supports the kinds of configurations demonstrated in this book, but it has grown vastly more capable, and also significantly more complex; this book will not help you with that.

If you need to build a two node cluster for a highly available web server or the like, this book and the included software, (you gotta love open source), will get you there in style. For a grounding in the basics, and even the complexities, of clustering servers for high availability this book will not disappoint. If you want to build a n-node cluster using the latest and greatest version of heartbeat this one won’t help much, I’m afraid.
Rating: 4
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