Hi,

I am building a two-node, active-standby cluster with shared storage. I think I 
got the basic primitives right, but fencing, implemented using SCSI persistent 
reservations, gives me some headache.First, I am unable to get 
stonith:fence_scsi work on RH/CentOS 6. (Using the sg_persist utility I am able 
to register keys, etc so that's not the problem.) 

This made me think about the fact that conceptually SCSI fencing should be 
resource-level fencing, not node-level fencing. The other node is not powered 
down or rebooted so perhaps I shouldn't be using stonith at all. Currently I 
think about having stonith-enabled="false" and I am writing a master-slave 
resource agent script to manage the SCSI persistent reservations in case of 
fail-over. Acting upon failed shared storage link seems to work, but I do not 
exactly know how to detect split brain. The latter case seems to be the 
critical one requiring fencing the shared storage. Any hints on how to do this? 
More generally, are there any guidelines for setting up a cluster with stonith 
disabled and resource-level fencing?

Thank and regards,
Lajos

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