Comments on: VMware Fencing in RedHat Cluster 5 (RHCS5)

By: Fencing Red Hat Cluster & VMWare server « Slimejuggernaut

Fencing Red Hat Cluster & VMWare server « Slimejuggernaut — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:25:04 +0000

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By: Ez Aton

Ez Aton — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:08:00 +0000

Can you attach your script here? I would love to have it online (for the next time I get to use VI)

By: janont

janont — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:51:57 +0000

I’m using VI Perl Toolkit + some part of script from fence_vmware to fence virtual m/c by RHCS. A script will connect to VI server and reset or poweroff v/m if need.

By: Ez-Aton

Ez-Aton — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:09:44 +0000

Hi Falko.

I have never tested it on ESX. I use (almost) VMware-Server almost solemnly, so there was not a chance.

You can hack it to actually run a script which does ssh to the ESX server (although for VI you might want to query on which physical server it is) and power off the server. Still, maintaining the same command-line switches and parameters, and you should be good to go on RHCS.

By: Falko

Falko — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:46:15 +0000

Hello,

it should be said, that this only works for ESX 2.x because VI 3 uses another [url=http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-PT-1-5]API[/url]

Has someone seen, a fencing agent which uses the new VI3 API?

Regards

Falko

By: Running Systems

Running Systems — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:22:03 +0000

I have been struggling with RH Cluster 4 with VMware fencing device. This was also a good experiance with qdiskd, the Disk Quorum directive and utilization. I have several conclusions out of this experience. First, the configuration, as is:

By: Running Systems

Running Systems — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:47:06 +0000

During an attempt to use the VMware Perl SDK, I have encountered the following error:VMControl Panic: SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library /usr/bin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7:/usr/bin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir

By: Yonatan

Yonatan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:22:25 +0000

Yup Vmware fencing works with a simple code modification

adding these 4 lines after line 264:

17a18
> #use strict;
264,268d264
< elsif ($name eq “nodename” )
< {
< $opt_ZZv = $val;
< }
<

By: Ez-Aton

Ez-Aton — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:17:46 +0000

What works? VMware fencing? As described?

By: Yonatan

Yonatan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:22:57 +0000

thanks!

works on redhat 4 clustered with gfs