[Info-vax] Two quorum disks (was: Re: Looking to remote cluster my two OVMS machines. Questions. Need help!!!)

[Keith Parris]

On 10/12/2012 3:09 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> A solution that works fine for me is to give each node in a two node
> NI cluster its own quorum disk.
> The quorum disk is local to that node. Each disk and each host have
> one vote. If both nodes are running
> then the quorum disks do not participate in the voting process. As soon
> as one node leaves the cluster the
> remaining node discovers its quorum disk, adds one vote and keeps on
> running.
> This is not a supported configuration though.
...
> For simple applications that just share files this set up works fine.

What version of VMS are you using? The reason I ask is that I recall 
being told years ago that this was considered a bug and had been fixed. 
So if you're using a recent version, there may have been an inadvertent 
reversion to the earlier behavior, and that would need to be fixed.

I'd recommend a 3rd voting node in a 3rd location. With 8.4 and IPCI, 
this could even be an emulator running VMS on a PC anywhere out on the 
IP network.