On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 14:27 -0400, Eric Kerin wrote: > 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. This is what I get for not looking first ;) -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
