Using SCSI Persistent Reservations in a Red Hat High Availability cluster

Environment

• Red Hat Cluster Suite 4+
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8 or 9 with the High Availability or Resilient Storage Add-Ons

Issue

• How do I use SCSI Persistent Reservations in any major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Resolution

Please refer to the following articles for detailed information about how to use SCSI persistent reservations as a fencing method in cluster suite:

• RHEL 4, 5: Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5
• RHEL 6 with rgmanager: Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• RHEL 6+ with pacemaker: Using SCSI Persistent Reservation Fencing (fence_scsi) with pacemaker in a Red Hat High Availability cluster

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