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Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and...
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by Karl Kopper
Sales Rank: 215417
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Discount: 34 %
$27.28
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press; Pap/Cdr edition May 1, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593270364
ISBN-13: 978-1593270360
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
;login:, February 2006
"A nice balance between detailed, hand-holding exposition and getting the concepts you need . . . to extend the recipes into your environment."
Midwest Book World, June 2005 http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/jun_05.htm
Walks one through projects and pitfalls step-by-step A ‘must-have for anyone interested in harnessing the power of a cluster.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The sheer number of books published in the recent years that cover the Linux Operation System is simply staggering. One aspect of Linux that has been explored recently is its enablement that is gives users that wish to build a clustered environment. Using free software and commodity hardware many organizations small to large, and even end-users such as myself, have been able to build a cluster or a Grid using Linux very cheaply. This book by Karl Koppers shows the readers a step-by-step guide of how to go about building an enterprise grade Linux cluster environment. The author depicts each step one by one for the reader and demonstrates what each step does and why "we do what do we". The following steps required for building a cluster are explored in detail in this book: * Understanding of the underlying Linux routing (NetFilter and basic packet routing) * Understanding of SystemImager program, and how it can help you in building a large cluster * Learning of to apply configuration changes to your cluster efficiently * Learn to build a Linux Virtual Server Network Address Translation fro your cluster, and learn why you need such capability * Learn how to manage failures in your cluster including software and hardware failures * Learn how to manage and monitor your cluster from a single point using a Web-based GUI * Learn how to apply software patches and updates to your cluster * Administrator user accounts and remote login including password-less login via SSH * Learn how to install a cluster print server * Learn how to install a batch-job scheduling system on your cluster As you can see, there are lots covered in this book. Some of the basics of the underlying Linux system and Kernel gets the reader off on a good start, and starts the foundation upon which the rest of your cluster can be built. Unlike any other book that claims to cover this topic, Karl has added a number of chapters on the understanding (he calls them theory of ...) of the concept and why things are done the way they are instead of just telling the reader what to do. These chapters can be skipped, obviously, but I found them to be extremely useful because it gives me a deeper knowledge of the topic at hand makes me understand the topic better. The whole point of the book is to enable someone, by simply going thru the book chapter by chapter, to build a medium to a large size cluster. A how-to guide that is packed with the appropriate software packages discussed in the text. My favorite topics in this book must the central administration of the cluster via Ganglia, and High-Availability configuration chapters. These two, monitoring and reliability, are key difficult areas which the author covers in detail. The combination of the book and the accompanying CD-ROM packed with software packages make this book a great buy. I have built my own cluster, but I am re-doing my environment by going thru this book chapter-by-chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved or interested in building or maintaining Linux Clusters.
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