Yournetwork contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains two
member servers named Server1 and Server2. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.
Server1 and Server2 have the Failover Clustering feature installed. The servers are configured as
nodes in a failover cluster named Guster1. Cluster1 contains a file server role named FS1 and a
generic service role named SVC1. Server1 is the preferred node for FS1. Server 2 is the preferred
node for SVC1.
You plan to run a disk maintenance tool on the physical disk used by FS1.
You need to ensure that running the disk maintenance tool does not cause a failover to occur.
What should you do before you run the tool?
A.
Run Suspend-ClusterResource.
B.
Run Suspend-GusterNode.
C.
Run cluster.exeand specify the pause parameter.
D.
Run cluster.exeand specify the offline parameter.
The given answer is INCORRECT.
Answer D) cluster.exe -offline will take the cluster offline and that is not what we want.
Answer C) will pause the cluster so we can do software updates but we first need to failover. Not what is asked.
Answer B) will suspend the cluster node. As Server1 is the preferred node for FS1, it wil failover. Not what is asked.
Answer A) will suspend a resource of a cluster. The cluser will stay online but we can do maintenance on the resource.
This explains :
Suspend-ClusterResource : Turn on maintenance for a disk resource or Cluster Shared Volume so that you can run a disk maintenance tool without triggering failover.
So the aswer here should be A) Suspend-ClusterResource
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I agree with you on this one Franc. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee460986.aspx
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We don’t want to shut down the whole cluster… talk about unnecessary…
What we want to do is, keep the cluster online and the nodes running while we perform the disk maintenance. We also want to prevent a failover to occur for FS1 while doing so. In this case, we can simply suspend the ClusterResource (cluster disk) without triggering a failover and without taking any node offline (that would actually trigger a failover)
My answer is A
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