[ClusterLabs] Fencing agent fence_xvm using multicast

Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais jgdr at dalibo.com
Mon Jul 28 10:46:36 UTC 2025


Hi Klaus,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:56:31 +0200
Klaus Wenninger <kwenning at redhat.com> wrote:

> […]
> If you have a single hypervisor where you have access to - some sort of at
> least - going with SBD will probably give you more issues than it will help
> you.
> […]
> But again I would encourage you to try something different unless you need
> any of the points where SBD shines.

I would be interested if you could you elaborate a bit on that?

Is it that SBD for watchdog self-fencing only architecture is considered
instable or insecure? How would it be?

And - appart from the single hv node - what's wrong with SBD on
"virtualized" raw shared storage? Any bad field experience?

Thanks!


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