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You need to ensure that if the WAN link between Site1 and Site2 fails while you are performing maintenance on

You have five servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2. The servers have the Failover Clustering
feature installed. You deploy a new cluster named Cluster1. Cluster1 is configured as shown in the
following table.

Server1, Server2, and Server3 are configured as the preferred owners of the cluster roles. Dynamic
quorum management is disabled.

You plan to perform hardware maintenance on Server3.
You need to ensure that if the WAN link between Site1 and Site2 fails while you are performing
maintenance on Server3, the cluster resource will remain available in Site1.
What should you do?

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A.
Add a file share witness in Site1.

B.
Enable DrainOnShutdown on Cluster1.

C.
Remove the node vote for Server4 and Server5.

D.
Remove the node vote for Server3.

Explanation:
Recommended Adjustments to Quorum Voting
When enabling or disabling a given WSFC (Windows Server Failover Clustering) node’s vote, follow
these guidelines:
* Exclude secondary site (here site2) nodes (here server4 and server5). In general, do not give votes
to WSFC nodes that reside at a secondary disaster recovery site. You do not want nodes in the
secondary site to contribute to a decision to take the cluster offline when there is nothing wrong
with the primary site.

WSFC Quorum Modes and Voting Configuration (SQL Server)

3 Comments on “You need to ensure that if the WAN link between Site1 and Site2 fails while you are performing maintenance on

  1. kurt says:

    Joe says:
    July 21, 2015 at 8:20 pm
    C – if both sites have 2 votes they will both think they are a cluster and will cause issues. If you remove the votes from site 2 site 1 will keep in control of the cluster.




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