> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Lon Hohberger <lhh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:03 +0800, Bernard Chew wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Lon Hohberger <lhh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 11:05 +0800, Bernard Chew wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Given I have 2 Red Hat Clusters; 1 cluster consisting of physical >> >> hosts and another consisting of virtual guests which are hosted in the >> >> physical hosts. The physical host cluster uses DRAC fencing while the >> >> virtual guest cluster uses virtual machine fencing. >> >> >> >> If a physical host goes down, I saw that DRAC fencing takes place >> >> successfully but fencing fail for the virtual guests on the physical >> >> host which go down (together). Does the virtual machine fencing fails >> >> because the virtual guests are no longer available? How can I >> >> configure fencing so that both physical hosts and virtual guests are >> >> fenced correctly? >> > >> > Are you using fence_xvm/fence_xvmd or fence_virsh ? >> > >> > -- Lon >> > >> > -- >> > Linux-cluster mailing list >> > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >> > >> >> Hi Lon, >> >> Thank you for looking into this. I am currently using fence_xvm/fence_xvmd. > > So, fence_xvmd should be making decisions in this case. > > If a host is not available (dead), fence_xvmd checks the location of the > VM we're trying to fence. If the VM was on a host the > physical/bare-metal cluster has previously fenced, then fence_xvmd tells > the requesting VM that the VM is indeed fenced. > > This of course requires fence_xvmd to be running in cluster mode and so > forth. > > Fencing the VM works if just the VM dies, right? > > -- Lon > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > Hi Lon, Fencing works perfectly if just the VM dies. Thanks, Bernard -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
