[Linux-cluster] RE: HP DL380 G4 & cluster fencing options

[Hofmeister, James (WTEC Linux)]

Hello Dave,

Sorry, I get what you are saying now...  You have *no* system NIC on the same physical network as the ILO.

|Regards,
|James Hofmeister
|Hewlett Packard Linux Solutions Engineer

|-----Original Message-----
|From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
|[mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jones, Dave
|Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:09 AM
|To: linux clustering
|Subject: RE: [Linux-cluster] RE: HP DL380 G4 & cluster fencing options
|
|Hello James.
|
|Thank you for the reply.
|As I was trying to explain, the ILO network is out of band,
|therefore there is no way for the cluster to connect to, login
|or otherwise interact with the ILO controller.  ILO is on an
|different subnet and different cabling infrastructure with no
|routing to the rest of the LAN.
|So unless there is something I'm not understanding, ILO is not
|an option.
|
|I'm looking for other ways to fence these systems.
|
|Thanks,
|Dave
|
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
|[mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
|Hofmeister, James (WTEC Linux)
|Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:42 PM
|To: linux clustering
|Subject: [Linux-cluster] RE: HP DL380 G4 & cluster fencing options
|
|Hello Dave,
|
|RE: HP DL380 G4 & cluster fencing options
|
|Using ILO fencing should work fine as long as the ILO for
|'all' of the cluster node are connected to the same physical
|network and IP subnet.
|The ILO IP network does not need to be the same as the
|heartbeat/admin traffic network.
|
|Regards,
|James Hofmeister
|Hewlett Packard Linux Solutions Engineer
|
||-----Original Message-----
||From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
||[mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jones, Dave
||Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 2:52 PM
||To: Linux-cluster at redhat.com
||Subject: [Linux-cluster] HP DL380 G4 & cluster fencing options
||
||
||
||(I apologize if this double-posts, long story)
||
||Hello all.
||
||I have what I hope are a few simple questions on RHEL 5.2 clustering
||using HP DL380 hardware.
||
||Long story short, we have several HP DL380-G4s that we are trying to
||set up in a test cluster but we do not have any of the
|obvious fencing
||options available to us.  ILO fencing does not seem to be an option
||because our standards dictate ILO be on an out-of-band network.
||We have SCSI fencing in place but I'm not convinced it is working
||properly nor that it is reliable.
||I hope to find funding to get an APC Masterswitch in place
|but that is
||not our standard so I need approval.
||
||In the meantime, can anyone offer any answers on the following
||questions?
||
||1) Are TripLite or other power controllers supported aside
|from what is
||on the hardware list?
||        (http://www.redhat.com/cluster_suite/hardware/)
||
||2) Is there a reliable way to change the SAN switch fencing
|controls to
||use SNMP (preferred) or perhaps SSH?
||        According to 'man fence_brocade' the system uses telnet.
||        An interactive login to a 256-port switch is bad enough, but
||doing so over an unencrypted telnet session just isn't going to fly!
||        I would think this would be a relatively trivial
|change to the
||script.
||        Has anyone done something like it?
||
||3) Does anyone have any experience clustering DL380s and have
||recommended Primary & Secondary fencing methods or advice
|they would be
||willing to share?
||
||4) Is anyone out there using only 1 fencing method with GFS
|filesystems
||in Production environment?
||
||Thanks,
||Dave
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