Chapter 4: Cluster Configuration Planning

Overview

"Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal."

--Japanese Proverb

"Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."

--Peter Drucker

The key to any successful endeavor is careful planning and preparation. Successful implementation of a cluster takes planning – planning for the short term and planning for the long term – but planning nonetheless. This chapter provides ideas for carefully and logically planning and preparing a successful TruCluster Server implementation – both for the short term and for the long term.