Installing the Identity Vault in a clustered environment might be a viable alternative for achieving high availability in some environments.
This section provides guidelines for configuring the Identity Vault on high-availability clusters by using shared storage. The information in this section is generalized for shared storage high-availability clusters on supported Windows and Linux platforms, and the information is not specific to a particular cluster manager.
NetIQ recommends reviewing the considerations for a clustered environment before beginning. For more information, see Section 6.3.4, Considerations for Installing the Identity Vault in a Clustered Environment.
The procedures in this section are based on the following assumptions:
You use eDirectory as the underlying structure for the Identity Vault.
You are familiar with eDirectory installation procedures.
You are using a two-node cluster.
NOTE:A two-node cluster is the minimum configuration used for high availability. However, the concepts in this section can easily be extended to a cluster with additional nodes. Note that eDirectory does not support load balancing by using multiple cluster nodes.