muthyala_51 (9/2/2015)
A question for you
You have nodea and nodeb on site 1 and node c on site 2, you have configured quorum for Majority Node Set, each node has a vote
The network connection between the sites is severed, what happens to your cluster roles and the cluster node states on
- site 1
- site 2
The cluster will not have any impact even with severed connection as we just lost one vote. node b will be down in the cluster which should not have any impact on cluster.
Exactly, so in your configuration why have you removed a vote from a perfectly suited node and then gone to all the hassle of deploying a fileshare witness on the primary site. Your default configuration for your number\placement of nodes was fine.
The kb you linked, is there to advise in situations where a geographically dispersed cluster ends up with a vote heavy DR site. With such a configuration primary site outages would be a real issue. To combat this design, good or bad, you may remove votes from nodes on a DR site to avoid having vote heavy DR.
The guide is not a one size fit all, it has specific circumstances that it applies to, you're not the first to misconstrue that article and you won't be the last.
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