On Saturday, April 20, 2013, Greg Woods wrote:

> I've got two-node clusters running Heartbeat (3.0.3-2.3.el5) and
> Pacemaker (1.0.9.1-1.15.el5) from the clusterlabs repo on CentOS 5.9
> (yes, I know my Pacemaker is a little old, but I don't want to upgrade
> unless there is some reason to believe it will help). These clusters run
> Xen virtual machines that provide critical infrastructure services (such
> as DNS).
>
> The problem is only that I don't know what is the best way to shut down
> the entire cluster cleanly (e.g. as when we do electrical maintenance in
> the data center and have a planned complete outage). Often one of the
> nodes gets stuck at "Stopping HA Services"


That means pacemaker is waiting for one of your resources to stop.
Do you have anything that would take a long time (or fail to stop)?


> and eventually I just have to
> hit the power button (physically or via IPMI).
>
> I can get a clean shutdown if I shut down one node first, then the
> second, but that isn't really "clean" because it causes all the virtual
> machines from the first node to stop and start on the second node, then
> go down again. I'd rather have everything just go down and stay down.
>
> Is there a recommended method for taking a cluster out of service
> cleanly?


It should just work.
Alternatively, put both nodes into standby and _then_ do the one-by-one
shutdown


> Thanks,
> --Greg
>
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