So I have been giving some thought to my fencing agent, as it seems a proper fencing solution is integral to any cluster. I only have access to basic Optiplex 990 and 960 desktops which is what I have built my cloud out of. I have been using the fence_pcmk agent but that doesn't seem to be a great solution. It can send shutdown and reboot commands to other nodes, but the nodes usually get hung-up in their shutdown scripts waiting for NFS shares to unmount or for VMs to turn off.
One agent that seems to come up a lot is OpenIPMI. I have done some reading on it and I can't quite get an understanding of if this is a software solution that doesn't need any hardware implementation such as a special IPMI management board. Can anyone let me know if I need hardware that specifically supports IPMI? William _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
