[Info-vax] Wide area cluster, metro area network, seeking info

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sa7p6k$erb$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> On 2021-06-14 02:54:55 +0000, Mark Berryman said:
> 
> > Configure each node with one vote.  Configure each node to use a local 
> > disk as the quorum disk, also with one vote.
> > As the cluster is formed, the nodes will discover that they do not 
> > agree on the quorum disk and will exclude it, resulting in quorum being 
> > established with the 2 votes provided by the nodes.
> 
> I'd consider that a bug in OpenVMS.

That was what was in my mind when I was asking whether it was supported. 
I could imagine that it is something which might work but is not 
documented and might go away in the future.

> Any host with an inconsistent DISK_QUORUM quorum disk name 
> specification should trigger a bugcheck (probably SEPPUCLU) when trying 
> to join the cluster.
> 
> DISK_QUORUM non-blank and non-consistent should not be permitted to 
> join the cluster.

Makes sense, as the suggested setup is obviously an abuse of the 
quorum-disk concept.