docs/en-US/management-server-install-multi-node.xml

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<section id="install-management-server-multi-nodes">
  <title>Prepare and Start Additional Management Servers</title>
  <para>For your second and subsequent Management Servers, you will install the Management Server
    software, connect it to the database, and set up the OS for the Management Server. </para>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para> Perform the steps in <xref linkend="prepare-os"/> and <xref
linkend="sect-source-buildrpm"/> or <xref linkend="sect-source-builddebs"/> as
        appropriate. </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>This step is required only for installations where XenServer is installed on the hypervisor hosts.</para>
      <para>Download vhd-util from <ulink
          url="http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util">vhd-util</ulink></para>
      <para>If the Management Server is RHEL or CentOS, copy vhd-util to
        /usr/lib64/cloud/common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver.</para>
      <para>If the Management Server is Ubuntu, copy vhd-util to
        /usr/lib/cloud/common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver/vhd-util.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para> Ensure that necessary services are started and set to start on boot.
        <programlisting><prompt>#</prompt> service rpcbind start
<prompt>#</prompt> service nfs start
<prompt>#</prompt> chkconfig nfs on
<prompt>#</prompt> chkconfig rpcbind on
</programlisting>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Configure the database client. Note the absence of the --deploy-as argument in this
        case. (For more details about the arguments to this command, see <xref
          linkend="management-server-install-db-external"/>.) </para>
      <programlisting><prompt>#</prompt> cloud-setup-databases cloud:<replaceable>dbpassword</replaceable>@<replaceable>dbhost</replaceable> -e <replaceable>encryption_type</replaceable> -m <replaceable>management_server_key</replaceable> -k <replaceable>database_key</replaceable> -i <replaceable>management_server_ip</replaceable>
      </programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Configure the OS and start the Management Server:</para>
      <programlisting><prompt>#</prompt> cloud-setup-management</programlisting>
      <para>The Management Server on this node should now be running.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Repeat these steps on each additional Management Server. </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Be sure to configure a load balancer for the Management Servers. See <xref linkend="management-server-lb"/>.</para>
    </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
</section>