You have five servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2. The servers have the Failover
Clustering feature installed. You deploy a new cluster named Cluster1. Cluster1 is
configured as shown in the following table.
Server1, Server2, and Server3 are configured as the preferred owners of the cluster roles.
Dynamic quorum management is disabled.
You plan to perform hardware maintenance on Server3.
You need to ensure that if the WAN link between Site1 and Site2 fails while you are
performing maintenance on Server3, the cluster resource will remain available in Site1.
What should you do?
A.
Add a file share witness in Site1.
B.
Enable DrainOnShutdown on Cluster1.
C.
Remove the node vote for Server4 and Server5.
D.
Remove the node vote for Server3.
Why not ‘A’, its also a possible solution
File witness must reside in the external site.
C is the answer.
Though “A” would seem to work, it does not provide with a reasonable solution to this question.
In this case, it is outside the scope of the problem. To minimize administrative effort, “C” is the best answer to this question.
are you sure?
dynamic quorum management is disabled so there is manual quorum management, introducing file share witness means that you are trying to create a second quorum toll which you cant. so C stays the answer
The correct answer is C. Remove the node vote for Server4 and Server5.
Because suppose you add a file share witness in Site1 and during the maintenance the file share witness and either Server1 or Server2 failed at the same time then the clients at Site2 will start accessing Server4 and Server5 which is contrary to the question requirements.
You need to keep the clients in both sites accessing cluster resource in Site1 and if the WAN link failed then any client should not access cluster resources in Site2 because cluster resources in Site1 are the preferred owners.
Although this is a risky solution, it’s correct : C
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answer won’t be “A” because there is an odd number of servers. appears that “C” is correct
C – if both sites have 2 votes they will both think they are a cluster and will cause issues. If you remove the votes from site 2 site 1 will keep in control of the cluster.
If you have explicitly removed the vote of a node, the cluster cannot dynamically add or remove that vote.
I believe FSW should be in another site. So A cannot be.
the question states if wan link fails, that mean A can not be a solution for site 2 they are majority, from site 2 perspective nodes on site one are dead