Summary

In this chapter, you learned what fencing is all about. You learned about the fence devices you can use and how they must be configured. Since a fencing mechanism is an important cluster task that needs to be tested thoroughly, you were also provided with information on how to test your fencing configuration and manually fence a cluster node for testing purposes. In the next chapter, you will see how to run cluster failover tests for different scenarios.

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