Windows 2008 R2 Cluster

[efector]

I currently have built a 2 node cluster. I know with my clusters in Win2K R2, you need to make sure that the quorum is assigned to the active node. Is this the same with 2008? I had created a new resource group, and failed it over to the stand-by node. The quorum/witness disk was still assigned to the primary node and seemed to be working OK.

Anyone have any information?

 

[mrdenny]

All versions of Windows can have the Cluster be on any node of the cluster. You can have a 8 node Windows 2k3 cluster with 7 active nodes and 1 passive node, and have the quorum be on the 8th node that isn't running any other services.

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[58sniper]

The split brain scenario is fine. mrdenny is correct except for one correction - Exchange CCR clusters can have only 2 nodes.

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