Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

locks stop another partition of the cluster from being able to take ownership of the witness and try to ...

Name>. It’s possible to have the file share witness for a cluster hosted on a different cluster to pro ...

Figure 7.3 Viewing the block blobs used in an Azure storage account for the cloud witness To modify the witness co ...

You can decide whether it is better to have a disk witness, cloud witness, or a file share witness. ...

cluster. For any cluster, the total number of votes is a hard number that can be changed only through o ...

In fact, that node that is now unavailable will have its vote removed from the cluster by the remainin ...

Figure 7. 4 Dynamic quorum in action With the ability to remove votes from the cluster as nodes fail or are shut down in a ...

When a node shuts down in a planned manner (an administrator shutdown or automated shutdown such a ...

Figure 7.5 Changing the votes for nodes in a cluster To make the change using PowerShell, set the vote of ...

decide whether the witness should have a vote or not: If an even number of nodes have a vote (dynami ...

Even in single-site configurations, the same last-man-standing code will be implemented. If I have a s ...

Perform a forced start in Failover Cluster Manager. All other nodes that will be part of the Forced Quo ...

Figure 7.8 Force Quorum resiliency in action Care should be taken when using Force Quorum because it would ...

case, it’s important to use a file share witness in a third location to ensure that if one site ...

The challenge is that LowerQuorumPriorityNodeID applies in only a 50-50 split, which often will not be th ...

Heartbeats behave differently within a site and between sites instead of being based on IP subnets (which still ...

Why Use Clustering with Hyper-V? In the previous sections, I went into a lot of detail about quorum and ...

file share, but many environments do not have the infrastructure to utilize SMB 3 at a datacenter level or already have l ...

Figure 7.9 Service retry actions Consider that if a service fails three times consecutively, it’s unlikely ...

The service being monitored must be set to Take No Action (see Figure 7.9) within the guest VM for subse ...