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The following sections in the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide About I/O fencing https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/vcs/5.1sp1/linux/productguides/html/vcs _install/ch01s03s03.htm About configuring VCS clusters for data integrity https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/vcs/5.1sp1/linux/productguides/html/vcs _install/ch01s06.htm
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I/O fencing that uses coordinator disks is referred to as disk-based I/O fencing. I/O fencing that uses at least one CP server system is referred to as server-based I/O fencing.
Required patches
VMware ESX 4.1 requires the following VMware patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externa lId=2000604
Array requirements
The array used for housing the coordinator disks should be listed in the Symantec Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for 5.1SP1. It should also be listed under the Guest operating system running inside the VMware Virtual Machine. The HCL is available via the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website at: https://sort.symantec.com/documents/
Limitations
The I/O fencing support for VMware Virtual Machines has the following limitations: Each SFHA or SFCFS cluster should have no more than one Virtual Machine from each physical server. However, a physical server can host more than one Virtual Machine as long as they do not belong to the same cluster. For example, consider two ESX servers as depicted in figure 1 and figure 2. Server A and Server B with two Virtual Machines created on each server: VM_A_1 and VM_A_2 on Server A and VM_B_1 and VM_B_2 on Server B. Two clusters can be created: Cluster 1 with VM_A_1 and VM_B_1 and Cluster 2 with VM_A_2 and VM_B_2 (figure 1). However, I/O fencing does not support a cluster created on the same machine. For example, I/O fencing does not support a cluster with VM_A_1 and VM_A_2 Virtual Machines (figure 2) or a cluster with VM_B_1 and VM_B_2 Virtual Machines. One set of coordinator disks must be made available to only one Virtual Machine per ESX server. A unique set of coordinator disks must be used for each cluster. Symantec does not support assigning coordinator disks of one cluster to another cluster. VMware currently does not support SCSI3-PR with N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). Consequently, SCSI3 I/O fencing support in SFHA and SFCFS is restricted to block storage that is allocated in RDM-P mode.
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