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 ...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.