I lowered my votes to 0 and that didn't work for me. Here is my current cluster.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster name="SAN1" config_version="1"> <cman two_node="1" expected_votes="1"> </cman> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="data" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="manual"> <device name="human" agent="fence_manual"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="front0" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="single"> <device name="human" agent="fence_manual"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="front1" votes="0"> <fence> <method name="single"> <device name="human" agent="fence_manual"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <fence_devices> <device name="apc1" agent="fence_apc" ipaddr="10.1.1.1" login="apc" passwd="apc"/> <device name="brocade1" agent="fence_brocade" ipaddr="10.1.1.2" login="user" passwd="pw"/> <device name="brocade2" agent="fence_brocade" ipaddr="10.1.1.3" login="user" passwd="pw"/> <device name="human" agent="fence_manual"/> </fence_devices> </cluster> This is the error that I get still. Starting Cluster (ccsd, fence, clvm, gnbd): cluster/sbin/cman_tool: the two-node option requires exactly two nodes with one vote each and expected votes of 1 (node_count=3 vote_sum=2) Am I misunderstanding a step or something. Thanks, Jon Nate Carlson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > >> That is right. What you have here is cman correcting an incorrect >> configuration. You've told it to expect only 10 votes but provided it >> with 101 votes. It knows when you're lying to it ;-) > > > But darn it, I *want* to be able to lie to it! :) > >> What you actually have here is a special case of a two-node cluster, >> because there are only two "real" nodes involved. Unfortunately the >> cman "two_node" mode is no use here because it enforces the 2-node >> restriction which would prevent you bringing any VMs online once the >> two real machines were up. > > > I've only got two physical boxes right now, but will be adding 2 more > in the near future (once I migrate all the services off the boxes in > my old colo to the new one.) > >> One little-known feature is that you can set votes to zero (only in >> CCS, not from the cman_tool command-line) which may go a little way >> to helping out. it would, at least, work for 3 or more Xen host nodes >> if all the VMs had zero votes. > > > I'm not sure how that would help - if I lose another physical host, > won't it still lose quorum? But sounds like a good idea anyways - I'll > drop the VM's down to 0 votes. > >> Perhaps we should change "2-node" mode to allow >2 nodes provided the >> extra nodes all had zero votes ? > > > If possible, an option that would let me say "here's the number > required for a quorum, I know I'm lying to you, but do it anyways" > would be nice. :) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster