Hi Lejeczek

> my iDrac6 currently runs off a dedicated NIC, and afaik it can be either that 
> or "shared".

If your iDRAC6 has a dedicated NIC it's an iDRAC6 Enterprise.
Available modes on the iDRAC6 Enterprise are: Dedicated, Shared, Shared with 
Failover LOM2, and Shared with Failover All LOMs.
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN85572

> Thus, with "dedicated" not failover, am I right?

With "dedicated" the switch your iDRAC6 is connected to becomes a single point 
of failure in your fencing logic.

> And one would not sacrifice "dedicated" for redundancy, would one?

Yes, I would. What do you gain with "Dedicated"?
Use one of the "Shared with Failover" modes and redundant network paths the 
same way you do with other cluster interfaces.

Stefan

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 6:32 PM, lejeczek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 14/12/16 12:52, Stefan M. Radman wrote:
>> Hi Lejeczek,
>> 
>> The Red Hat Access website has two solution documents (content restricted to 
>> subscribers).
>> One for rgmanager (RHEL5-6)
>> How to configure fence_ipmilan with Red Hat Enterprise Linux High 
>> Availability Add On
>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/54843
>> and one for pacemaker (RHEL 6-7)
>> How to configure fence_ipmilan with Red Hat Enterprise Linux High 
>> Availability Pacemaker Add On on RHEL 6, 7
>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2271811
>> 
>> One of my favorite open resources is Clusterlabs
>> http://wiki.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Configure_Multiple_Fencing_Devices_Using_pcs
>> 
>> The pacemaker solution has been working reliably here (RHEL6,HA AddOn,PE720) 
>> for more than two years now and actually triggered a few times, at least 
>> once during an actual hardware issue.
>> 
>> Here is the stonith configuration we're using in a 2-node HA cluster running 
>> pacemaker on RHEL6:
>> 
>> # pcs stonith create node1-pwr fence_ipmilan ipaddr=192.168.1.1 lanplus=true 
>> login=root passwd=calvin pcmk_host_list=node1
>> # pcs resource ban node1-pwr node1
>> # pcs stonith create node2-pwr fence_ipmilan ipaddr=192.168.1.2 lanplus=true 
>> login=root passwd=calvin pcmk_host_list=node2
>> # pcs resource ban node2-pwr node2
>> # pcs stonith show
>>  node2-pwr (stonith:fence_ipmilan): Started node1
>>  node1-pwr (stonith:fence_ipmilan): Started node2
>> 
>> Make sure you have IPMI and redundancy (NIC failover) properly set up on 
>> your iDRAC.
>> 
>> Stefan
> oh, this is nice, many! thanks Stefan
> my iDrac6 currently runs off a dedicated NIC, and afaik it can be either that 
> or "shared".
> Thus, with "dedicated" not failover, am I right?
> And one would not sacrifice "dedicated" for redundancy, would one?
> regards
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 11:55 AM, lejeczek 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> hi everybody
>> 
>> just a quick question, probably very easy for you guys -
>> iDracs as fencing device in HA configs(rhel's)? Would there
>> be any docs/howtos?
>> Or maybe there is better way to do that with PE servers?
>> 
>> many thanks,
>> L.
>> 
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