Janne Peltonen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:36:44AM -0500, Eric Kerin wrote:
Well, first it tries ilo. If that fails, it uses the APC. If that
fails, then we have a multipoint failure, and obviously protecting
against multipoint failure costs a lot more than protecting against a
single point failure...
OK, I thought that the power would go through the APC first, iLO second.
So if the APC failed, then a working iLO would do no good, because it
wouldn't have power. But then, I'm not an expert on hardware...
In this case you're right. If the APC died a horrible firey death then
the server would probably be down, and both the APC and iLO would not be
accessible for fencing.
In my situation I have redundant power supplies, and two APC devices,
(both left power supplies go into one, right into the other) Therefore
if one of my power controllers fail, the systems is still online. And
hopefully I'll notice the downed power supplies before the next time the
cluster needs to fence something. This lowers the risk to an acceptable
level for me, but not necessarily for everyone.
Thanks,
Eric Kerin
eric@xxxxxxxxxxx
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