> Dear list members, > > I have in production a RHCS cluster composed of three RHEL4u5 nodes that > use GFS. Initially, I first put no fence device on the nodes. I just > defined a manual fence device without associating it to the nodes. > > As the GFS file system is not accessible when I'm rebooting one of the > three nodes, I'm realizing the importance of fence devices. > > I just defined manual fence devices for the three nodes, but I read that > manual fence device is not a good idea for production environment. > > My machines are SUN Fire X4100. I see that we can define a fence device of > type HP ILO. I would like to know if I can use the HP ILO form in > system-config-cluster tool to enter and use a SUN ILOM as fence device? > > If so, do you have any points I should pay attention for when I will > define them? I recall that I'm working on a production environment and I'm > scary to put things worst that they already are. > > Thank you very much > > __________________ > > Stéphanie Lanthier I run a mix of SUNFire X4100's and X4600's and am currently testing a cluster setup with them. Though I have not fully tested it yet, I am planning on trying ipmi_lan as the fence device since the cards support IPMI. I can let you know how it works out. Thanks, Brad Crotchett brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bradandkim.net -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
