[CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread Machin, Greg
Hi. I'm new to configuring Clustering . The CentOS 5.5 guest machines will be running on ESXi 4.1 . I'm configuring the clustering using Conga . I see that there is support for using ESX to do the fencing. The problem I have is that the guest machines are not allowed to have access the

Re: [CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread carlopmart
On 03/23/2011 11:19 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I’m new to configuring Clustering . The CentOS 5.5 guest machines will be running on ESXi 4.1 . I’m configuring the clustering using “Conga” . I see that there is support for using ESX to do the fencing. The problem I have is that the guest

Re: [CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Use fence_manual ... but it is not supported officially by TUV in production environments ... Do not use that... How does that actually fence the offending node when it needs to? The concept of fencing is for the preservation of data integrity, circumventing it with a manual fence is useful