Hi, On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:18:36PM -0700, Devin Reade wrote: > Johannes Freygner <han...@freygner.at> wrote: > > > *) Yes, and I found the wrong setting: > > Excellent. > > > But if I pull the power cable without a regular shutting down, > > the powerless node gets status "UNCLEAN (offline)" and the > > resources remains stopped. > > I would contend that would be correct behavior as (again assuming that > you have redundant power sources), the only way that should happen is > with multiple failures (against which HA in general does not protect). > > But, it's *your* cluster :) > > > I found and tested a workaround: I use as second fencing device "meatware" > [snip] > > I would be wary of meatware; I believe that it's intended for testing only.
No, it's not for testing. > I tried using it in production on one site where the nodes of the HA cluster > were virtual machines under the free version of VMWare ESXi. (That version > has the APIs disabled that would be required to do a proper stonith > mechanism.) I found that meatware was flakey at best. If it was flakey, then you ran into a bug. I think that there were some issues with pacemaker 1.1, but can't recall details anymore. Thanks, Dejan > As an aside, I will likely never again try to deploy HA nodes as ESXi > VMs unless the site is running the commercial version. > > Devin > -- > It is far, far better to have a bastard in the > family than an unemployed son-in-law. - Robert Heinlein > > > _______________________________________________ > Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org > Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf > Bugs: > http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker
