[Pacemaker] VMWare Guest as Cluster Nodes - how to do stonith

[Koch, Sebastian]

Hi Martin,

thanks for the reply. Do you have any experience with external/vmware? I read that it isn't compatible with ESX Hosts?

Do you have any experiences with the libvirt? It sounds very promising to me. Normally a simple soap call to reboot the guest would be enough to have kind of stonith.
You are right there could be a scenario where we would need to stonith the esx host but lets start with the simple things. 

The whole topic is kind of a black whole in my opinion because there isn't that much information available.


Best Regards
Sebastian

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Hi Sebastian,


> guests. Does anybody have experiences or advises on how to configure 
> stonith for vmware guests or maybe there is another solution to build 
> a reliable virtual cluster.

See this thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/62850?search_string=Pacemaker%20in%20VMware%20guests;#62850

I am planning to experiment with libvirt (http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html), so please let me know your proceedings when you go this way. 

The only problem I see is: what about the esx-hosts, isn't there a scenario when you want to kill the host (and that could be rather problematic)? 


Best,
Martin 




"Koch, Sebastian" <Sebastian.Koch at netzwerk.de> wrote on 20.05.2010
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> Hi,
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> i was researching the whole vmware / stonith problem for a couple of 
> days and i did not find any reliable information or examples on how to 
> implement stonith with virtualized debian linux on vmware esx 4 
> guests. Does anybody have experiences or advises on how to configure 
> stonith for vmware guests or maybe there is another solution to build 
> a reliable virtual cluster.
> 
> Any help and hints is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
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