What is the cluster property startup-fencing for in a RHEL 6 or 7 High Availability cluster with pacemaker?

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Issue

  • What is startup-fencing?
  • Can I disable startup-fencing in my pacemaker cluster?
  • Does Red Hat support disabling startup-fencing in a cluster?
  • If I don't want my nodes to fence each other on startup if they see the other as missing, can I configure the cluster to prevent this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • pacemaker

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