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Description of problem:
fence_vmware uses a proprietary perl API that is not in RHEL.  But the libvirt client in RHEL6 supports URIs to connect to both ESX and VirtualCenter/vSphere mgmt servers.

We should be able to point fence_virt on a virtual cluster node to point to the vSphere/VirtualCenter server for all other guests so that it can just ask the mgmt server to do the fencing for it.

This does not affect fence_virtd at all since in ESX deployments we have no host access so there will be no fence_virtd running.

This may also require backporting fence_virt or a similar agent to RHEL5 to support the RHEL5 use case.

*** Bug 595378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Instead of integrating into fence-virt, fence_vmware will be reworked to use the SOAP API exposed by VMware.  Marking as duplicate of bug # 624673

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624673 ***