[CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Wed Mar 23 22:50:27 UTC 2011


>Use fence_manual ... but it is not supported officially by TUV in 
>production environments ...

Do not use that...
How does that actually fence the offending node when it needs to?

The concept of fencing is for the preservation of data integrity, circumventing
it with a manual fence is useful only for testing, if you need to fence
an errant node in production and don't, it might just corrupt your shared
storage. Sigh...

Make a firewall provision, it's imperative you get fencing right.



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