[Info-vax] Distant Cluster?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <k4phj0$8g7$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes: 

> Now it is possible to shutdown all the Alphas, the Itanium boxes continue to
> run and vice versa. But if the network connection between the two sites drops,
> the Itaniums crash. Why?

Forget architecture, disks, locations.  What you describe above a) 
shouldn't be possible and b) should be avoided, since it can lead to a 
partitioned cluster.

Is there a quorum disk somewhere?

How many votes does each machine have?

(Not really relevant, but: are all boot servers, or are there some 
satellites as well?)