[ClusterLabs] fence-virtd reach remote server serial/VM channel/TCP

[Digimer]

On 05/08/15 03:09 PM, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> On 02/08/15 16:30 +0200, Noel Kuntze wrote:
>> I would like to know if it is possible for
>> fence-virtd to realy a request from a client, which it
>> received via serial, VM channel or TCP connection
>> from an agent to another daemon, if the VM that should
>> be fenced does not run on the same host as the contacted daemon.
> 
> First, it doesn't sound like very commendable or at least common setup
> to have virtualized cluster nodes spread around multiple hosts.
> When increasing the complexity of a deployment, new points of failure
> can be introduced, defeating the purpose of HA.
> 
> Could you please share details of your use case?  

To interject;

It is not something I would do, but I've heard of cases where a separate
department handles hardware and the devops types are restricted to VMs
only. In such a case, you would want to span hosts to protect against a
host failure. Not sure if this is Noel's use-case, of course.

> To your question, it might (hypothetically) be doable if you manage to
> put the guests on the first host together with the other host into
> the same multicast-friendly network or will rely multicast packets
> between those "remote" sides by other means.
> 
> Alternatively, you might implement such relying directly as
> fence_virtd module (backend), possibly reusing some code from the
> client side (fence_virt).


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