[Linux-cluster] fence device

[Q.L]

So, is there any 8 ports brocade switch that support fencing agent?
can Qlogic switch work? If I use a switch without fencing agent, can I
use a manual fencing way to get system work? In fact, what I want to
study is the Symmetric lock principle, especially at the time
concurrent write/read to the storage pool from both nodes, without
considering one point failure.

Thanks!

On 7/29/05, JACOB_LIBERMAN at dell.com <JACOB_LIBERMAN at dell.com> wrote:
> There are fencing agents for mcdata and brocade switches. Any managed
> switch accessible via telnet should work, but you may have to roll your
> own fencing agent based on the example scripts.
> 
> Thanks, jacob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:50 AM
> > To: linux-cluster at redhat.com
> > Subject: [Linux-cluster] fence device
> >
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I would like to setup an  environment to study GFS, in which
> > 2 x86 box, 2 FC HBA,1 FC Switch and 1 FC raid system will be
> > involved in, the 2 nodes communicate through ethernet of
> > course. However, I am not sure what kind of FC switch is good
> > enough to me, can I select a 8 ports FC switch freely? Do I
> > have to use it as fence devcie? if I don't want to do manual
> > fence configuration.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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