You should also consider that if power goes out on the entire cluster, then when it comes back on you have to start the servers again anyway. So, when you try and start the server on node A and it fails since the node is hosed, then you could just start the same server on a different node? It's exactly the same command line you'd be running, you'd just be running it on a different node. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063487#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...