Creating I/O fencing configuration files

Last published : Sep 11, 2026
To update the I/O fencing files and start I/O fencing
  1. On all cluster nodes, run the following command
    \# cp /etc/vxfen.d/vxfenmode_majority /etc/vxfenmode
    1. To check the updated /etc/vxfenmode configuration, enter the following command on one of the nodes.
    \# cat /etc/vxfenmode
  2. Ensure that you edit the following file on each node in the cluster to change the values of the VXFEN_START and the VXFEN_STOP environment variables to 1.
/etc/sysconfig/vxfen