Hi Sebastian, > Do you have any experiences with the libvirt? It sounds very > promising to me. Normally a simple soap call to reboot the guest > would be enough to have kind of stonith.
I have some experiences with libvirt, but not yet with the ESX hypervisordriver. However with that driver configured you should be able to start|stop|reset your VM with virsh commands or even with one of the language bindings (e.g. python). It looks very promising to me. > The whole topic is kind of a black whole in my opinion because there > isn't that much information available. You are right, the documentation of libvirt is not the best, but what I can recommend is the IRC support of the libvirt developers! They once helped me out a great deal with libvirts virtualbox driver. * server: irc.oftc.net * port: 6667 (the usual IRC port) * channel: #virt HTH, Martin "Koch, Sebastian" <sebastian.k...@netzwerk.de> wrote on 20.05.2010 18:18:26: > [image removed] > > Re: [Pacemaker] VMWare Guest as Cluster Nodes - how to do stonith > > Koch, Sebastian > > to: > > The Pacemaker cluster resource manager > > 20.05.2010 18:21 > > Please respond to The Pacemaker cluster resource manager > > Hi Martin, > > thanks for the reply. Do you have any experience with external/ > vmware? I read that it isn't compatible with ESX Hosts? > > Do you have any experiences with the libvirt? It sounds very > promising to me. Normally a simple soap call to reboot the guest > would be enough to have kind of stonith. > You are right there could be a scenario where we would need to > stonith the esx host but lets start with the simple things. > > The whole topic is kind of a black whole in my opinion because there > isn't that much information available. > > > Best Regards > Sebastian > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: martin.br...@icw.de [mailto:martin.br...@icw.de] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2010 17:59 > An: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager > Betreff: Re: [Pacemaker] VMWare Guest as Cluster Nodes - how to do stonith > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > guests. Does anybody have experiences or advises on how to configure > > stonith for vmware guests or maybe there is another solution to build > > a reliable virtual cluster. > > See this thread: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/62850? > search_string=Pacemaker%20in%20VMware%20guests;#62850 > > I am planning to experiment with libvirt (http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html > ), so please let me know your proceedings when you go this way. > > The only problem I see is: what about the esx-hosts, isn't there a > scenario when you want to kill the host (and that could be rather > problematic)? > > > Best, > Martin > > > > > "Koch, Sebastian" <sebastian.k...@netzwerk.de> wrote on 20.05.2010 > 16:13:59: > > > [image removed] > > > > [Pacemaker] VMWare Guest as Cluster Nodes - how to do stonith > > > > Koch, Sebastian > > > > to: > > > > The Pacemaker cluster resource manager > > > > 20.05.2010 16:16 > > > > Please respond to The Pacemaker cluster resource manager > > > > Hi, > > > > i was researching the whole vmware / stonith problem for a couple of > > days and i did not find any reliable information or examples on how to > > implement stonith with virtualized debian linux on vmware esx 4 > > guests. Does anybody have experiences or advises on how to configure > > stonith for vmware guests or maybe there is another solution to build > > a reliable virtual cluster. > > > > Any help and hints is appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Sebastian_______________________________________________ > > Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org > > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker > > > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: > > http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf > > > _______________________________________________ > Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org > Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf InterComponentWare AG: Vorstand: Peter Kirschbauer (Vors.), Jörg Stadler / Aufsichtsratsvors.: Prof. Dr. Christof Hettich Firmensitz: 69190 Walldorf, Altrottstraße 31 / AG Mannheim HRB 351761 / USt.-IdNr.: DE 198388516 _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf