Can we configure cluster on Virtual Machines of VMware having installed RedHat (RHEL 5)

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi All,

Is it possible configuring cluster on Virtual Machines of VMware having installed RedHat (RHEL 5)?

If yes, Do we need to configure fence device, and How to configure fence device?

[Chhaya_Z]

Hi Senthil,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires support for a fencing agent.  In RHEL 5.7+ the fence agent to use with VMware is fence_vmware_soap which uses the VMware vCenter SOAP API to perform fencing.  In versions of RHEL prior to 5.7, an older agent called fence_vmware was used.  This agent is not fully supported and customers should switch to using the fence_vmware_soap agent.

Regards,

Chhaya