[Gluster-users] Emulating node outages

[Vijay Bellur]

On 12/07/2015 09:11 AM, Joseph Hardeman wrote:
> Hi Lindsay,
>
> Another way to test a failure is, if you have access to the switch layer
> and know 100% which ports the node your wanting to simulate dying is,
> then just shut all ports down at the same time.  This does a good job
> simulating a node dying.
>

You could also shut down the relevant network interface on the server or 
use iptables/firewall to block incoming traffic.

HTH,
Vijay