Quorum recommendation

  • Hi there,

    I am working an quorom selection en run into this(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770620(WS.10).aspx).

    Here I found a table with Quorum recommendations:

    Description of cluster - Quorum recommendation

    Odd number of nodes - Node Majority

    Even number of nodes (but not a multi-site cluster) - Node and Disk Majority

    Even number of nodes, multi-site cluster - Node and File Share Majority

    Even number of nodes, no shared storage - Node and File Share Majority

    Exchange CCR cluster (two nodes) - Node and File Share Majority

    As shown above, Microsoft makes a distinction between single-site en multi-site environments for 'Node and Disk Majority' and 'Node and File Share Majority'

    On this moment I am dealing with a multi-site environment, but the multi-site environment provides storage virtualisation. In my opinion, because of this storage virtualisation the gap between 'single-site / multi-site' closes. Storage is offered in a flexible manner becase the SAN (using SAN replication) enables storage failover that is transparent for the cluster. So I do have a multi-site environment, but with single storage.

    Could any of you elaborate on the choice for 'Node and Disk Majority' and 'Node and File Share Majority' in relation to the single-site / multi-site environment as specified by Microsoft?

    Does my choice for a 'Node and Disk Majority' quorum based on a two node cluster and my explination above a logical one?

    Kind regards,

    Dave

  • How many nodes will be there ?

    Distance Between Multi Site ?

    Regards,
    Syed Jahanzaib Bin Hassan
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  • 2 nodes.

    Is distance really important? Ik could have a long distance with a short RTT and a short distance with a long RTT. I know this doesn't sound logical but still RTT, latence et cetera says more then distance alone....

  • Does my choice for a 'Node and Disk Majority' quorum based on a two node cluster and my explination above a logical one?

    Yes

    Regards,
    Syed Jahanzaib Bin Hassan
    BSCS | MCTS | MCITP | OCA | OCP | OCE | SCJP | IBMCDBA

    My Blog
    www.aureus-salah.com

  • Sayed thanx

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