fence_vmware is an I/O Fencing agent which can be used with the VMware ESX, VMware ESXi or VMware Server to fence virtual machines. Before you can use this agent, it must be installed VI Perl Toolkit or vmrun command on every node you want to make fencing. VI Perl Toolkit is preferred for VMware ESX/ESXi and Virtual Center. Vmrun command is only solution for VMware Server 1/2 (this command will works against ESX/ESXi 3.5 up2 and VC up2 too, but not cluster aware!) and is available as part of VMware VIX API SDK package. VI Perl and VIX API SDK are both available from VMware web pages (not int RHEL repository!). You can specify type of VMware you are connecting to with -d switch (or vmware_type for stdin). Possible values are esx, server2 and server1.Default value is esx, which will use VI Perl. With server1 and server2, vmrun command is used. After you have successfully installed VI Perl Toolkit or VIX API, you should be able to run fence_vmware_helper (part of this agent) or vmrun command. This agent supports only vmrun from version 2.0.0 (VIX API 1.6.0). http://www.vmware.com Fencing action Command to execute Identity file (private key) for SSH Forces agent to use IPv4 addresses only Forces agent to use IPv6 addresses only IP address or hostname of fencing device IP address or hostname of fencing device TCP/UDP port to use for connection with device Login name Login password or passphrase Script to run to retrieve password Login password or passphrase Script to run to retrieve password IP address or hostname of fencing device (together with --port-as-ip) IP address or hostname of fencing device (together with --port-as-ip) Use SSH connection Use SSH connection SSH options to use Login name Type of VMware to connect VMWare datacenter filter Disable logging to stderr. Does not affect --verbose or --debug-file or logging to syslog. Verbose mode. Multiple -v flags can be stacked on the command line (e.g., -vvv) to increase verbosity. Level of debugging detail in output. Defaults to the number of --verbose flags specified on the command line, or to 1 if verbose=1 in a stonith device configuration (i.e., on stdin). Write debug information to given file Write debug information to given file Display version information and exit Display help and exit Separator for plug parameter when specifying more than 1 plug Wait X seconds before fencing is started Disable timeout (true/false) (default: true when run from Pacemaker 2.0+) Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login Make "port/plug" to be an alias to IP address Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command Sleep X seconds between status calls during a STONITH action Count of attempts to retry power on Path to ssh binary