Re: Quorum disk

And from memory it's used for the same thing in NT clusters, though there are more restrictions on it there. Putting it simply, a quorum disk is used in clusters to make sure nodes are still alive. It doesn't have to be a particular OS, but rather that a variety of OS's have taken this route. Other OS's use more sophisticated mechanisms.

HTH. Pete

Nigel Kellman wrote:

> Old Luke wrote:
> >
> > What is a quorum disk?
> >
> > Thanks!!!!
>
> A quorum disk is a disk that acts as a virtual node
> providing a 'vote' to the cluster quorum value in a
> VMScluster. The cluster will deliberately cease working if
> there aren't enough 'votes'. Any disk can be a quorum disk
> and as far as I know a system can have more than one. A
> quorum disk or indeed any node taking part can provide one
> or more votes, this can be used to ensure e.g. that a
> cluster will not continue to operate if the system disk
> fails, although other uses are possible.

Received on Thu Sep 09 1999 - 10:59:36 CDT