[Pacemaker] Fencing dependency between bare metal host and its VMs guest

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 11:56:00 EST 2014


В Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:07:18 +0100
Tomasz Kontusz <tomasz.kontusz at gmail.com> пишет:

> I think the suggestion was to put shooting the host in the fencing path of a VM. This way if you can't get the host to fence the VM (as the host is already dead) you just check if the host was fenced.
> 

Exactly. One thing I do not know how it will behave in case of multiple
VMs on the same host. I.e. will pacemaker try to fence host for every
VM or recognize that all VMs are dead after the first time agent is
invoked.

> Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin at baby-gnu.org> napisał:
> >Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>> Now I have one issue, when the bare metal host on which the VM is
> >>> running die, the VM is lost and can not be fenced.
> >>> 
> >>> Is there a way to make pacemaker ACK the fencing of the VM running
> >on a
> >>> host when the host is fenced itself?
> >>> 
> >>
> >> Yes, you can define multiple stonith agents and priority between
> >them.
> >>
> >> http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Fencing_topology
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >If I understand correctly, fencing topology is the way to have several
> >fencing devices for a node and try them consecutively until one works.
> >
> >In my configuration, I group the VM stonith agents with the
> >corresponding VM resource, to make them move together[1].
> >
> >Here is my use case:
> >
> >1. Resource ONE-Frontend-Group runs on nebula1
> >2. nebula1 is fenced
> >3. node one-fronted can not be fenced
> >
> >Is there a way to say that the life on node one-frontend is related to
> >the state of resource ONE-Frontend?
> >
> >In which case when the node nebula1 is fenced, pacemaker should be
> >aware that
> >resource ONE-Frontend is not running any more, so node one-frontend is
> >OFFLINE and not UNCLEAN.
> >
> >Regards.
> >
> >Footnotes: 
> >[1] 
> >http://oss.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/pacemaker/2014-October/022671.html
> >
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