On 03/12/15 02:19 PM, Kelvin Edmison wrote: > > I am hoping that someone can help me understand the problems I'm having > with linux clustering for VMs. > > I am clustering 2 VMs on two separate VM hosts, trying to ensure that a > service is always available. The hosts and guests are both RHEL 6.7. > The goal is to have only one of the two VMs running at a time. > > The configuration works when we test/simulate VM deaths and graceful VM > host shutdowns, and administrative switchovers (i.e. clusvcadm -r ). > > However, when we simulate the sudden isolation of host A (e.g. ifdown > eth0), two things happen > 1) the VM on host B does not start, and repeated fence_xvm errors appear > in the logs on host B > 2) when the 'failed' node is returned to service, the cman service on > host B dies. If the node's host is dead, then there is no way for the survivor to determine the state of the lost VM node. The cluster is not allowed to take "no answer" as confirmation of fence success. If your hosts have IPMI, then you could add fence_ipmilan as a backup method where, if fence_xvm fails, it moves on and reboots the host itself. > This is my cluster.conf file (some elisions re: hostnames) > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <cluster config_version="14" name="clustername"> > <fence_daemon/> > <clusternodes> > <clusternode name="hostA.fqdn" nodeid="1"> > <fence> > <method name="VmFence"> > <device name="virtfence1" port="jobhistory"/> > </method> > </fence> > </clusternode> > <clusternode name="hostB.fqdn" nodeid="2"> > <fence> > <method name="VmFence"> > <device name="virtfence2" port="jobhistory"/> > </method> > </fence> > </clusternode> > </clusternodes> > <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> > <fencedevices> > <fencedevice agent="fence_xvm" > key_file="/etc/cluster/fence_xvm_hostA.key" > multicast_address="239.255.1.10" name="virtfence1"/> > <fencedevice agent="fence_xvm" > key_file="/etc/cluster/fence_xvm_hostB.key" > multicast_address="239.255.2.10" name="virtfence2"/> > </fencedevices> > <rm> > <failoverdomains/> > <resources/> > <vm autostart="1" name="jobhistory" recovery="restart" > use_virsh="1"/> > </rm> > <logging/> > </cluster> > > > Thanks for any help you can offer, > Kelvin Edmison > -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
