Fedora 7 + Sun Java + Glassfish + MySQL

Start:
6 - Servers with a base install of Fedora 7
? - Time and effort


End result:
1 - 2 machine, load-balanced, application server cluster with failover and in-memory replication
1 - 4 machine, load-balanced, MySQL NDB database cluster with 2 storage nodes, 1 sql / load balancer node, and 1 management / load balancer node


The process will be described in a serious of forthcoming posts.