Hi, I am following the directions of the VMClusterCookbook and have the early makings of a virtualized two node cluster. On both guest-nodes i can initialize cman and achieve quorate. However, things go sideways when I try to initialize clvmd on both nodes. The first node brings up clvmd cleanly but the second reports FAILED upon coming up and the volumes i wish to mount become inaccessible. Further, I've no firewalling on the guests. I 've read a similar post but that was from many months ago, on older version not much use. Logs and output below.. Thanks in advance for any responses! >From the consoles.. [root@vsp07 ~]# /etc/init.d/clvmd start Starting clvmd: dlm: Using TCP for communications [ OK ] Activating VGs: 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active [ OK ] [root@vsp07 ~]# [root@vsp08 ~]# /etc/init.d/clvmd start Starting clvmd: clvmd startup timed out [FAILED] >From the /var/log/messages... [root@vsp07 ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jan 1 19:28:13 vsp07 kernel: dlm: Using TCP for communications Jan 1 19:28:14 vsp07 clvmd: Cluster LVM daemon started - connected to CMAN Jan 1 19:28:27 vsp07 kernel: dlm: connecting to 2 Jan 1 19:28:27 vsp07 kernel: dlm: connect from non cluster node [root@vsp08 ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jan 1 19:28:27 vsp08 kernel: dlm: Using TCP for communications Jan 1 19:28:27 vsp08 kernel: dlm: connect from non cluster node Jan 1 19:28:27 vsp08 kernel: dlm: connecting to 1 Here is my cluster.conf file for the guests Cent0S-5.1.. <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="testbag" config_version="27" name="testbag"> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <totem token="21000"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="vsp07" votes="1" nodeid="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device domain="vsp07" name="xvm"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="vsp08" votes="1" nodeid="2"> <fence> <method name="2"> <device domain="vsp08" name="xvm"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_xvm" name="xvm"/> </fencedevices> </cluster> ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster