Question about DAG and half hour network outage


we have 6 member dag in exchange 2010 sp3 ru9 , 1 hub witness server. planning 30 minute complete network outage. best course of action prevent split brain issue , dismounting database confusion in dag. discussed failing on active databases 3 servers , stopping exchange services on other 3 prior outage. or have stop services on witness server?

hi john sophy,

in scenario can shutdown 3 node , cluster keep running, can not shutdown witness disk same time, cause cluster stop work.

if number drops below majority, cluster stops running. nodes still listen presence of other nodes, in case node appears again on network, nodes not begin function cluster until quorum exists again.

for example, 16 node cluster in disk witness online sustain 8 node failures. can sustain failures of half nodes (rounding up) minus 1 if disk witness goes offline or fails. example, 16 node cluster failed disk witness sustain 7 (8-1=7) node failures.

the related kb:

understanding quorum configurations in failover cluster

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731739.aspx?f=255&mspperror=-2147217396

i’m glad of you!


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