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Configure cluster quorums

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Configure cluster quorums

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- [Narrator] In Windows Server 2016, the failover cluster manager needs a quorum. It has a direct effect on the high availability of the cluster for the following reasons. It helps ensure that the failover cluster can start properly or continue running when the active cluster membership changes. Membership changes can occur because of planned or unplanned node shutdowns or when there's disruption in connectivity between the nodes with the cluster storage. When a subset of nodes cannot communicate with another subset of nodes, a split cluster can be involved. The cluster quorum configuration helps ensure that only one of the subsets continues running as a cluster. The subsets that do not have enough quorum votes will stop running as a cluster. The subset that has the majority of votes can continue hosting those clustered roles. This helps avoid having the same application hosted in more than one partition, which could cause some server crashes. We also need to configure the witness…

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