A. Installing VirtualBox and Linux and Cloning the Virtual Machines
You can install the test cluster discussed in Chapter 4, “Planning for and Creating a Fully Distributed Cluster,” on a laptop, a desktop or a server. The steps are the same regardless of the machine you use. As I mentioned in Chapter 4, I used Oracle Enterprise Linux for running my three-node cluster. However, you can use Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, or any other Linux distribution you wish. Everything works either exactly the same way or with very minor differences.
Please note that while the installation steps are for a specific version of Linux and VirtualBox, you don’t have to use the same release I show here. A more recent release should work pretty much the same ...
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