Quorum disk purpose


a windows cluster employs "quorum" disk log file used record changes made active node (so can pushed passive node if required).  read "quorum" can cast vote determine if cluster remains running. log file casting vote? can please clarify this?

tia,

edm2

a windows cluster employs "quorum" disk log file used record changes made active node (so can pushed passive node if required).  read "quorum" can cast vote determine if cluster remains running. log file casting vote? can please clarify this?

tia,

edm2

quorum disk used voting make sure alive part of cluster has majority. avoid brain split issues when 2 parts of cluster continue working on same content (shared storage can have paths preserved , ethernet links between cluster nodes may down) , damage it. see:

understanding quorum in failover cluster

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2011/05/27/10169261.aspx

quorum configurations in failover cluster

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731739.aspx

failover cluster step-by-step guide: configuring quorum in failover cluster

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770620(v=ws.10).aspx

that's article failover cluster , sql server example read it! see:

understanding concept of sql server failover cluster

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/practicalsqldba/2012/03/14/understanding-the-concept-of-sql-server-failover-cluster/print/

hope helped :)


starwind vsan [virtual san] clusters hyper-v without sas, fibre channel, smb 3.0 or iscsi, uses ethernet mirror internally mounted sata disks between hosts.




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