[ovirt-users] Fake power management?

[Barak Azulay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "mots" <mots at nepu.moe>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 4:54:08 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Fake power management?
> 
> Fake power management? Hello,
> 
> I'm building a small demonstration system for our sales team to take to a
> customer so that they can show them our solutions.
> Hardware: Two Intel NUC's, a 4 port switch and a laptop.
> Engine: Runs as a VM on one of the NUCs, which one it runs on is determined
> by pacemaker.
> Storage: Also managed by pacemaker, it's drbd backed and accessed with iscsi.
> oVirt version: 3.5
> OS: CentOS 6.6
> 
> The idea is to have our sales representative (or the potential customer
> himself) randomly pull the plug on one of the NUCs to show that the system
> stays operational when part of the hardware fails.

I assume you are aware that the engine might fence the node it is running on ... 
Or do you use pacemaker to run the engine as well ?

> My problem is that I don't have any way to implement power management, so the
> Engine can't fence nodes and won't restart guests that were running on the
> node which lost power. In pacemaker I can just configure fencing over SSH or
> even disable the requirement to do so completely. Is there something similar
> for oVirt, so that the Engine will consider a node which it can't connect to
> to be powered down?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> mots
> 
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