[Linux-cluster] VMWare Fencing / RHCS 4

[Kevin Anderson]

Interesting, will ask the libvirt guys.  

these apis seem to be targeted at Java and C# environments, might be the
primary problem with using them.  Are there Linux C++ interfaces
available?

Kevin

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:07 -0400, Lauro, John wrote:
> Vmware has always had fairly open interfaces.
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] VMWare Fencing / RHCS 4
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> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:36 -0500, Jeremy Carroll wrote: 
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> Does anybody here know of a fencing module that would work with VMWare
> ESX Server 3? We utilize VMWare for our cluster infrastructure and would
> like to put fencing in place to power down virtual machines.
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> Our desire is to use the fence_xvm/fence_xvmd agent for all virtual
> machine management in the clusters.  The problem with fencing virtual
> machines is knowing on which physical machine the virtual instance is
> executing.  With the ability to failover/restart/migrate virtual
> instances, fence_xvmd maintains that status and tracks the movement.
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> This issue is that fence_xvmd uses libvirt interfaces to do this for
> xen and other virtual engines.  However, libvirt does not have APIs to
> control VMWare instances due to VMWare not providing/documenting their
> control points.  Given the lack of documentation, it will be
> problematic to integrate that capability into the open source
> products.
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> So, put pressure on VMWare from a customer standpoint to open up their
> interfaces.
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> Thanks
> Kevin 
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