The adventure can start!

Tonight, just before a university exam about system adminstration, the adventure of building my personal cluster starts! Why tonight? Is it coincidence? No, I suppose.

First because I'm bored of studying and I need to focus on something else.

Second the idea was born because of that exam, where I found a lot of useful, wonderful, basic information about hight availability and clustering. I was always wondered about this world but I never knew where to start, where lies the differences between my home server and a professional server. I always supposed the difference was in the dedicated hardware and its correlated proprietary software, but I was wrong: hardware helps but the main difference is concept! Then, in the middle of the preparation of the exam I came in possession of three HP ProLiant server. That was enough for my mind to start wondering what will I can do!

By now I'm currently in 2 distinct phases (except preparing the exam):

1. I'm physically building up the server and all the hardware infrastructure
2. I'm studying all the concepts, the protocols, the applications and the topologies available and then I'll design my cluster
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