On 2008-11-04T13:38:31, Wolf Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Andrew graciously posted a CIB snipit for the vmware stonith  here, however I 
> still don't quite know how to make heads or tails of it.
> 
> I'm looking for a resource I can read thru that explains stonith a bit more, 
> with some examples; as it's still somewhat confusing to me.
> 
> Should I have one stonith device per physical machine, with a clone per 
> PhysicalMachine's VM that's bound to each node via a location rule?

The vmware stonith is for testing only, NOT for production.


> I've got a total of 4 vms on 2 physical boxes. The VMs are the elements of 
> the cluster. The vmware "dom0" are not members of the cluster.

This doesn't work. This is not protected against a split-brain at the
physical level.

Please see http://wiki.linux-ha.org/DomUClusters for a solution with
clustering both inside dom0 and DomU.

Alternatively, if you have true physical shared storage,
http://www.linux-ha.org/SBD_Fencing might be an option.


Regards,
    Lars

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