[Linux-cluster] Graceful Degradation

[Yann Boutin]

2007/12/14, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com>:

> These "ILO"s and "IPMI"s MB are still expensive from the educational
> instititution's viewpoint.

Greetings,
A low cost solution, for educational purpose is using

centos (rhel clone)
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15

free vmware server (1.0.4)
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

and the vmware fence agent :
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cluster/fence/agents/vmware/?cvsroot=cluster

which requires VMware Perl API
http://www.vmware.com/download/sdk/api.html

Read this very good article explaning how to put all together
http://www.tournament.org.il/run/index.php?/archives/140-VMware-Fencing-in-RedHat-Cluster-5-RHCS5.html

Regards

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Yann