What fence device to use with IBM 3650X series m2/m4 model servers?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)

Issue

• What fence device to use with IBM 3650X series m2/m4 model servers?

Resolution

IBM 3650X series m2/m4 model servers have a BMC controller that implements the version 2 IPMI
protocol. Hence fence_ipmilan could be used.

The configuration should look similar to as mentioned here How to configure an ILO version 3 or 4 fence device for use with the RHEL High Availability Add On

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