[ClusterLabs] Antw: fence_vmware_soap: reads VM status but fails to reboot/on/off

[Octavian Ciobanu]

Hey Marek,

I've run the command with --action off and uploaded the file on one of our
servers : https://cloud.iwgate.com/index.php/s/1SpZlG8mBSR1dNE

Interesting thing is that at the end of the file I found "Unable to
connect/login to fencing device" instead of "Failed: Timed out waiting to
power OFF"

As information about my test rig:
 Host OS: VMware ESXi 6.5 Hypervisor
 Guest OS: Centos 7.3.1611 minimal with the latest updates
 Fence agents installed with yum :
    fence-agents-hpblade-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-rsa-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ilo-moonshot-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-rhevm-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-virt-0.3.2-5.el7.x86_64
    fence-agents-mpath-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ibmblade-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ipdu-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-common-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-rsb-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ilo-ssh-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-bladecenter-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-drac5-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-brocade-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-wti-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-compute-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-eps-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-cisco-ucs-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-intelmodular-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-eaton-snmp-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-cisco-mds-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-apc-snmp-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ilo2-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-all-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-vmware-soap-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ilo-mp-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-apc-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-emerson-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ipmilan-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-ifmib-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-kdump-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64
    fence-agents-scsi-4.0.11-47.el7_3.5.x86_64

Thank you

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Marek Grac <mgrac at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > But when I call any of the power actions (on, off, reboot) I get "Failed:
>> > Timed out waiting to power OFF".
>> >
>> > I've tried with all the combinations of --power-timeout and --power-wait
>> > and same error without any change in the response time.
>> >
>> > Any ideas from where or how to fix this issue ?
>>
>
> No, you have used the right options and if they were high enough it should
> work. You can try to post verbose (anonymized) output and we can take a
> look at it more deeply.
>
>
>>
>> I suspect "power off" is actually a virtual press of the ACPI power
>> button (reboot likewise), so your VM tries to shut down cleanly. That could
>> take time, and it could hang (I guess). I don't use VMware, but maybe
>> there's a "reset" action that presses the virtual reset button of the
>> virtual hardware... ;-)
>>
>
> There should not be a fence agent that will do soft reboot. The 'reset'
> action does  power off/check status/power on so we are sure that machine
> was really down (of course unless --method cycle when 'reboot' button is
> used).
>
> m,
>
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