10 = (19 / 2) + 1
If I lose 1 of those 2 network director nodes, you lose 5 votes but you remain quorate, unless you lose 5 more regular nodes along with it. If I lose BOTH network director nodes (10 votes), I don't care about quorum, because my application is dead anyways (no network directors managing client connections!). But, we have a contingency plan to "promote" one of the failover nodes as a network director by running the correct services and adjusting its vote count to 5 for extra redundancy.
It would be nice to see other implementations that vary from the typical 1 vote per node cluster.
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:43 +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
Janne Peltonen wrote: > Hi! > > I've been wondering... > > If I were to build a 4 node cluster, what would happen (with default > quorum settings) if I lost two nodes at once (say, by losing one of my > two blade racks)? Would the remaining two nodes be able to continue, or > would they consider quorum dissolved and shut down the remaining > services? I only have three nodes for testing purposes, so I haven't > been able to look at this yet. Under normal circumstances you need (n/2)+1 nodes to keep quorum. So if you lose two nodes out of four then the services will stop. To prevent this you can use the qdisk program to keep the cluster quorate in such circumstances.
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