I would say no then, as "Node and File Share majority" means MORE than half of the voting members need to be online:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770620(v=ws.10).aspx I’ve never used the last option listed of No Majority: Disk only, but it appears to be the only one that doesn’t require half—would have to read up on it. The reason I asked is because Server 2012 R2 has some new options for assigning votes and other quorum-related settings. You might also look into that for the future. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Clustering question - 3 node cluster across 2 sites, and a quorum On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > What version of Windows Server? Sorry; these are all Windows Server 2008 R2. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 AM > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [NTSysADM] Clustering question - 3 node cluster across 2 sites, and > a quorum > > So my boss has a question. If we have a 3 node cluster - 2 nodes at > PrimarySite, 1 node at DR-Site - and we are using a "Node and File Share" > quorum (this is a "witness" configuration? I'm not up on my MSCS). > > To confirm - if we lose the 2 nodes in the PrimarySite, the single node in > the DR-Site can still maintain quorum with just itself and a witness disk? > > (we're planning and testing Disaster Recovery, can you tell? :-)) > >
