[Linux-ha-dev] Stonith device development

[chris barry]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:06 +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> 
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Christopher Barry wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have a virtual infrastructure using VMware ESX Servers. I've
> > created a
> > script that I use with fenced that interops with the Virtual Center
> > to
> > drop my linux-cluster gfs nodes (uses the viperltoolkit), and I want
> > to
> > mod it so stonith can use it for my additional supporting heartbeat
> > active/passive nodes (e.g. repository servers/ftp servers/cifs
> > servers/etc.).
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> There is a stonith agent for vmware server that comes with 2.1.3
> http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/file/tip/lib/plugins/stonith/external/vmware
> 
> 
> I use it regularly :-)

Thanks Andrew. I am aware of this agent. It does not however work using
the viperltoolkit APIs, nor can it use VirtualCenter, so it's not a
workable option for me - hence the fenced script ;). In a clustered ESX
environment that supports the live migrating of VMs, using the
VirtualCenter to transparently and automatically locate and access VMs
that require fencing (that may be on any box at any time) is the ideal
solution. I guess I'll re-examine the format of the various existing
scripts and just go from there.

Thanks for replying though.

Regards,
-C

> > Can anyone point me to some good best practice docs on this process?
> > I've read the ssh and other external/* scripts in the heartbeat
> > distribution, but I was wondering if there are some other docs I
> > could
> > have a look at first.



> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -C
> > 
> > 
> > 
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