fence_vmware_soap fails when ESXi host for a VM crashes, powers off, or becomes unavailable in a RHEL High Availability cluster
Issue
fence_vmware_soapfails if the ESXi server hosting the VM becomes inaccessible- Our tests show an issue in case of hardware failure of one ESXi host (
rgmanagerblocking forever) - Fencing of VMware VMs fails when the host is unavailable
- Our VMware host for a VM cluster node crashed, and the other VMs in the cluster running on other hosts stopped working
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, or 7 with the High Availability Add On
fence_vmware_soap
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