Pacemaker Pacemaker provides a framework to manage the availability of resources. It's essentially the core component on a cluster that allows you to manage resource locations etc. Installing apt-get install pacemaker pcs resource-agents yum install pacemaker pcs resource-agents Configuration Add all hosts related to the cluster to /etc/hosts (including the host you're on, also remove any reference to localhost/ 127.0.0.1) Set password for hacluster user: passwd hacluster authorise the nodes to be included in the cluster: pcs host auth node01.srv.world node02.srv.world start services for cluster: pcs cluster start --all enable services: pcs cluster enable --all Verify installation is working and nodes are connected: pcs cluster status pcs status corosync Deleting a cluster installation pcs cluster stop --all pcs cluster destroy --all