[CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

Wed Mar 23 22:31:48 UTC 2011
carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com>

On 03/23/2011 11:19 PM, Machin, Greg wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I’m new to configuring Clustering .
>
> The CentOS 5.5 guest machines will be running on ESXi 4.1 . I’m
> configuring the clustering using “Conga” . I see that there is support
> for using ESX to do the fencing. The problem I have is that the guest
> machines are not allowed to have access the “management network” as per
> security policies. The guest machines don’t no access to the management
> IPs of any of the hardware as per security policies. How should I
> implement fencing.
>
> Thanks
>
> *Greg Machin*
> *Systems Administrator - Linux*
> Infrastructure Group, Information Services
>
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>

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

Regards.


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CL Martinez
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