On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:51 -0400, Lon Hohberger wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 19:40 -0500, David.Sullivan wrote: > > * Insofar as hardware fencing is required with RHCS 4.0, will I be able to > > demonstrate failover functionality to management at all? I'm basically > > looking for a means to automagically fail over to a "hot standby" server. > > Automagically won't work (and is *dangerous*). You'll have to use > manual fencing. However, you could probably put together a fencing > agent which asked the VMWare server to power off a guest... > There's already a fence agent for VMWare guests in CVS HEAD, just download the file, and place in your /sbin directory. Then you should be able to use fence_vmware as your agent in your /etc/cluster/cluster.conf file. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cluster/fence/agents/vmware/?cvsroot=cluster Looks like it requires the VMWare tools on the cluster nodes, but that should be no big deal. Thanks, Eric Kerin eric@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
