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Blog Post: Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Dynamic Quorum - Revisited

Aeval Shah

This is a follow on post to my original dynamic quorum post which can be found here . I have had a lot of scenario based questions around dynamic quorum and it’s behaviour and I have done some extensive testing to try and explain some scenarios with detail. Scenario 1: Explaining dynamic quorum using...

on5 Jun 2013
Blog Post: Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Dynamic Quorum

Aeval Shah

Introduction to Quorum Quorum in Windows 2008 R2 referred to a consensus , that is, a majority of votes is required in order to reach quorum and maintain stability of the cluster. A new option created in Windows Server 2012 which was also back ported to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 was the ability...

on21 Aug 2012
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering - Best Practice Guide

Aeval Shah

Overview Hi everyone, this article is aimed at providing a best practice guide for building a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. The article provides details on hardware and software pre-requisites and configuration best practices. This guide also provides best practices for different areas...

on15 May 2012
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering - Avoiding Chkdsk on Failover

Aeval Shah

Overview In Windows Server 2003 if corruption on a physical disk was encountered the chkdsk process was run to attempt to repair the corruption. The repair attempt would occur when a disk resource was moved or failed over to another cluster node. The disk was taken offline, moved and then would be...

on15 May 2012