Chapter 2. Installing Cluster Services and Configuring Network Components

In this chapter, you will learn how to set up and configure the basic required network infrastructure and also the clustering components that we installed in the previous chapter.

In addition to this, we will review the basic and important concepts of firewalling and Internet protocols, and we will explain how to add the firewall rules that will allow communication between the nodes and the proper operation of the clustering services on each node.

If your native language is any other than English, you must have taken an English class or taught yourself (as I did) before being able to read this book. The same thing happens when two people who do not speak the same language want to communicate with each other. At least one of them needs to know the language of the other, or the two of them need to agree on a common idiom in order to be able to understand each other.

In networking, the equivalent of languages...