Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed how to install the operating system and installed the necessary software components to implement the basic cluster functionality. Ensure that you have installed your nodes, the basic clustering software as outlined earlier in this chapter, and configured the network and SSH access before proceeding with Chapter 2, Installing Cluster Services and Configuring Network Components, where we will configure the resource manager, the messaging layer, and the firewall service in order to actually start building our cluster.