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# About Server Clustering

This section introduces the server clustering functionality of PingFederate.

Use this guide to learn the following concepts and tasks for deploying PingFederate server clusters:

* [Overview of clustering](pf_overview_cluster.html)

* [Cluster protocol architecture](pf_cluster_protoc_architec.html)

* [Runtime state-management architectures](pf_runtime_state_manage_achitec.html)

* [Runtime state-management services](pf_runtime_state_manage_serv.html)

* [Deploying cluster servers](pf_deploying_cluster_servers.html)

* [Deploying provisioning failover](pf_deploy_provis_failover.html)

* [Configuration synchronization](pf_config_synchroniz.html)