SCSI Persistent Reservation fencing (fence_scsi) does not work in RHEL 5 or 6 with multiple ESXi VM cluster nodes running on the same host
Issue
- Does
fence_scsiwork with cluster nodes as guests on the same ESXi host? - I need to configure a fence device for ESXi VM cluster nodes.
fence_scsiworks from command line but not fromcman
Dec 11 08:06:41 fence_scsi: [debug] main::do_register_ignore (node_key=1, dev=/dev/sda)
Dec 11 08:06:41 fence_scsi: [debug] main::do_reset (dev=/dev/sda, status=0)
Dec 11 08:06:41 fence_scsi: [error] failed to create registration (key=1, device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36000144000000010203d72672bc76763)
Dec 11 08:06:41 fence_scsi: [debug] main::do_register_ignore (err=5)
- SCSI reservation conflicts when both VM nodes running on same host
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 with the High Availability Add On
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 with the High Availability Add On
- SCSI Persistent Reservation Fencing (
fence_scsi) - Multiple VMWare ESXi VMs running on the same physical host operating in a cluster together
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