OES2 Cluster on VMware ESX

Has anyone installed an OES2 cluster on VmWare ESX successfully.

Originally Posted by rllangford
Has anyone installed an OES2 cluster on VmWare ESX successfully.
We have set up two ESX hosts (ESX 3.5 U4) and have two SLES10 64 clustered VMs with OES2 installed. We have two RDMs set up with a split brain partition (quorum drive). We have no problems setting all of this up and when it works it works well. What we have problems with is when we do maintainence on the ESX hosts.
We get the dreaded "Unable to power up machine due to afile lock" on the second clustered VM when we power it up after doing maintaince on the ESX host. The first clustered VM is powered up and ok but we are unable to clear the lock as ESX does not see it. VMware does not support this and Novell seems to point us to VMware. The only way we have cleared this up is by shutting down the ESX host for about 10 minutes and then powering it back up. This clears the lock sometimes. The most extreme case was we had to power down the SAN to release the lock.
There seems to be nothing specific on the web about our proble, only similar cases. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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Hi, thanks for reply,
I have already followed the steps also on your links but no joy on this.
What i noticed here is cluster seems to be buggy. Because i have tried to install cluster 3.3 on physical hardware and it gave me excat same error messages! interesting isnt it?
Please see errors below that I got from on top of VMware and also on Solaris Physical hardware installation:
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Comment: I have installed different memories all the time. It keeps sayying that silly error.
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Comment: All Nics have different MAC address though, also I have done what it suggests me. No joy here as well!
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ERROR4
Comment: No comment on this, i have done what it says no joy...
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