On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Miller Bonnie L. < [email protected]> wrote: > 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
He says that < http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731739.aspx > says you can. Hence his question ... Specifically: *Node and File Share Majority Quorum Configuration* In a cluster with the Node and File Share Majority configuration, the nodes and the file share witness are counted when calculating a majority. This is similar to the Node and Disk Majority quorum configuration shown in the previous illustration, except that the witness is a file share that all nodes in the cluster can access instead of a disk in cluster storage. [image: Cluster with Disk Only quorum configuration] In a cluster with the Disk Only configuration, the number of nodes does not affect how quorum is achieved. The disk is the quorum. However, if communication with the disk is lost, the cluster becomes unavailable. So if the 2 nodes in PrimarySite went down, but the node in DR-Site stayed up, and the Witness disk at ThirdSite stayed up (and in communication with DR-Site), then that diagram says the cluster stays up. That's what he's trying to confirm.
