[Info-vax] Looking to remote cluster my two OVMS machines. Questions. Need help!!!

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <dc64887b-e9ce-4afc-a998-146b0f673053 at c20g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
>> 
>> 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 quorumdisks do not participate in the voting process.

If VMS allows this to happen, it is, pure and simple, a bug.

>   How do you discover a quorum disk when below quorum?  Or is that
>   a feature I didn't pay attention to?

The quorum disk polling mechanism takes place at a very low level.
Such things as the XQP, RMS are not involved.  The quorum disk will still
work even if it's not mounted (although it is highly recommended that it 
be mounted).

>   I don't see the advantage over using the console to re-establish
>   quorum, unless it's done automagically somehow.