Setup a Linux Highly Availability NFS servers

In this tutorial I will describe how to set up a Linux Highly Availability(HA) NFS servers using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2. In order to make Linux HA NFS failover work, you’re require “sm-notify” utility, basically sm-notify will send out Network Status Monitor(NSM) reboot notifications.

Here are the steps to prepare automated NFS failover.

Server setup details:
Hostname: ServerNFS01
IP Address: 10.10.10.11

Hostname: ServerNFS02
IP Address: 10.10.10.12

Linux HA Virtual Hostname: servernfs01
IP Address 10.10.10.10

NFS Client Hostname NFSclient01
IP Address: 10.10.10.13

Require RPM:
nfs-utils
util-linux
heartbeat
portmap

The /data directory is a Linux HA share drive sitting on /dev/sdb1(ext3) and contains NFS share drive.
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