Hi Digimer, Could you please give me reference/case studies of problem about why manual fencing was dropped and how automated fencing is fixing those?
Thanks, Parvez On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote: > On 10/02/2012 04:00 AM, Parvez Shaikh wrote: > >> What kind of cluster is this - an academic project or production quality >> solution? >> >> If its former - go for manual fencing. You wont need fence device but >> failover wont be automatic >> > > *Please* don't do this. Manual fencing support was dropped for a reason. > It's *far* too easy to mess things up when an admin uses it before > identifying a problem. > > > If its later - yes you'll need fence device >> > > This is the only sane option; Academic or production. Fencing is an > integral part of the cluster and you do yourself no favour by not learning > it in an academic setup. > > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca > "Hydrogen is just a colourless, odourless gas which, if left alone in > sufficient quantities for long periods of time, begins to think about > itself." >
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