About This Supercluster Guide

The following sections provide helpful information to help you get the most out of this guide.

This guide includes several significant sections:

Overview of PCE Supercluster possible architectures and components
General tasks required to deploy, operate, and use a PCE Supercluster: health monitoring, PCE web console and API access, backup and restore, and workload pairing considerations
Basic theory of PCE Supercluster operations

Use this guide in conjunction with PCE Installation and Upgrade Guide and PCE Administration Guide.

Before attempting the procedures in this guide, you should be familiar with the following technology:

Your organization's security goals
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General computer system administration of Linux and Windows operating systems, including startup/shutdown, standard processes or services
Linux shell (bash) and Windows PowerShell
TCP/IP networks, including protocols and well-known ports
PKI certificates

Newly introduced terminology is italicized. Example: activation code (also known as pairing key)
Command-line examples are monospace. Example: illumio-ven-ctl --activate
Arguments on command lines are monospace italics. Example: illumio-ven-ctl --activate activation_code
In some examples, the output might be shown across several lines but is actually on one single line.
Command input or output lines not essential to an example are sometimes omitted, as indicated by three periods in a row. Example:
```
...
some command or command output
...
```

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