[Pacemaker] Vmware Stonith device plugin which uses VMware VC

[Joseph, Lester]

Hi,

Has any one written or come across a stonith plugin for VMware that supports Virtual Center?

I have a few nodes which are all VMware virtual machines in a clustered environment.
I have painfully searched for a stonith plugin to use with this nodes.

I have been researching the possibility of creating my own using the community provided perl scripts that are included in the VMware-vSphere-SDK-for-Perl toolkit. The script vmcontrol.pl in this toolkit looks like it can do what we want, however, we need to incorporate this in a stonith plugin.

Operation of the vmcontrol.pl script.

    Operation to be performed. One of the following:

      <poweron> (power on one or more virtual machines),
      <poweroff> (power off one  or more virtual machines),
      <suspend> (suspend one or more virtual machines),
      <reboot> (reboot one or more guests),
      <reset> (reset one or more virtual machines),
      <shutdown> (shutdown one or more guests),
      <standby> (set to standby mode one or guests).


Can anyone advise?

Kind Regards

Lester Joseph
Linux Systems Administrator
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