[Info-vax] set cluster/expected_votes

[Richard Brodie]

"rgscomp" <ray at rgscomputing.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> I read in the notes that this command won't reduce Quorum to "half or
> fewer" than the number of votes present. With two nodes remaining, I
> will still have two votes in the cluster, so does this mean that using
> this command to reduce expected_votes to 1 at this point won't work,
> and so won't allow me to shutdown the second node and not hang the
> remaining system?

Indeed. You cannot 'game' the quorum system using this command.
The supported way is to use the 'remove node' option during shutdown.