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What a Cluster... VCS 5.1 on ESX (vSphere)

I had originally planned on this being a lengthy post, detailing my experience with building a 2-node Veritas Cluster Server environment using VMware vSphere 4.1 hosting Red Hat 5.7 and VCS 5.1 SP1GA.

Once I had the cluster up and running, it seemed to be somewhat flaky and I decided to focus on more important things.  I might get back to this someday.

I guess my greatest surprise is that fencing appears to be working (even though the "hardware test" failed --
Output:
Preempt and abort key KeyA using key KeyB on node vcs02 ................ Failed
An even greater surprise is why fencing does not work in more environments...

Regardless, here it is...
[root@vcs01 rhel5_x86_64]# hastatus -sum

-- SYSTEM STATE
-- System State Frozen

A vcs01 RUNNING 0
A vcs02 RUNNING 0

-- GROUP STATE
-- Group System Probed AutoDisabled State

B ClusterService vcs01 Y N ONLINE
B ClusterService vcs02 Y N OFFLINE
B cvm vcs01 Y N ONLINE
B cvm vcs02 Y N ONLINE
[root@vcs01 rhel5_x86_64]# gabconfig -a
GAB Port Memberships
===============================================================
Port a gen 5dfc01 membership 01
Port b gen 5dfc15 membership 01
Port d gen 5dfc08 membership 01
Port f gen 5dfc21 membership 01
Port h gen 5dfc18 membership 01
Port u gen 5dfc1e membership 01
Port v gen 5dfc1a membership 01
Port w gen 5dfc1c membership 01

I believe I will be able to test the fencing by removing a disk or two from a node and letting it run it's course.

And.. here is the key:
create a directory on a datastore visible to the ESX server
# mkdir /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/
Then... run the following commands to create the volumes.
#!/bin/sh
vmkfstools -c 512m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/quorum-1.vmdk
vmkfstools -c 512m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/quorum-2.vmdk
vmkfstools -c 512m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/quorum-3.vmdk
vmkfstools -c 2048m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/sharedDB-1.vmdk
vmkfstools -c 2048m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/sharedDB-2.vmdk
vmkfstools -c 2048m -a lsilogic -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SharedDisk-VCS01-VCS02/sharedDB-3.vmdk

Attach them to your 2 VCS-VMs.

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