Can fence_vmware_soap fence VMware guests without vCenter in a RHEL 5, 6, or 7 High Availability or Resilient Storage cluster?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL 5, 6, or 7 with the High Availability or Resilient Storage Add On
  • VMware ESXi without vCenter
  • fence_vmware_soap

Issue

  • Can fence_vmware_soap fence VMware guests in an environment without vCenter?
  • We know that fence_vmware_soap can be given the vCenter hostname or IP to fence VMs, but if we don't use vCenter can I pass the hostname or IP of the ESXi server directly?

Resolution

For complete details of Red Hat's support level for using various virtualization platforms in conjunction with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons, including additional details on the limitations and requirements for clusters based on VMWare platforms, please consult the High Availability and Virtualization Support Matrix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7


`fence_vmware_soap` is supported with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 without the use of vCenter in all available update levels of RHEL 7. Other versions of ESXi are untested with RHEL 7. On supported releases, simply configure `fence_vmware_soap`'s `ipaddr` attribute to point to the IP address or hostname of the ESXi host instead of the vCenter host.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6


`fence_vmware_soap` is supported against ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 without the use of vCenter as of RHEL 6 Update 5. Earlier updates of RHEL 6 or different versions of ESXi are untested and unsupported. On supported releases, simply configure `fence_vmware_soap`'s `ipaddr` attribute to point to the IP address or hostname of the ESXi host instead of the vCenter host.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5


`fence_vmware_soap` is only tested and supported when connecting directly to vCenter. Connecting to ESXi hosts without the use of vCenter is untested and unsupported.
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