[PVE-User] Confused about fencing device...

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sat Sep 21 16:09:05 CEST 2013


> Yeah... I see your point...
> 
> We need more than 3 elements to build a reliable HA environment...
> I will reconsider all this point...

Yes, but that is not the only point.

If you do not have fencing devices, your cluster cannot be sure that other nodes
are really offline - that is theoretically impossible.

Any software/watchdog based self-fencing is unreliable compared to
a correct fencing infrastructure.






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