<div>The configuration you are trying to build, 2 cluster nodes (1 vote each) plus a quorum disk 1 vote (making a total expected votes= 3) must remain up if you loose 1 of the members (as long as the remaining node still accesses the quorum disk) because there are still 2 active votes (1 remaining node + 1 quorum disk) = 2 > expected_votes/2.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Quorum (majority) must be greater (absolutely greater >) than expected_votes/2 (51% or greater) in order to service to continue. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/27 Bennie R Thomas <<a href="mailto:Bennie_R_Thomas@raytheon.com">Bennie_R_Thomas@raytheon.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Try setting your expected votes to 2 or 1.. Your Cluster is hanging with one node because it want's 3 votes. <table width="100%"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td>From: <td>Brem Belguebli <<a href="mailto:brem.belguebli@gmail.com" target="_blank">brem.belguebli@gmail.com</a>> <tr valign="top"> <td>To: <td>linux clustering <<a href="mailto:linux-cluster@redhat.com" target="_blank">linux-cluster@redhat.com</a>> <tr valign="top"> <td>Date: <td>09/25/2010 10:30 AM <tr valign="top"> <td>Subject: <td>Re: [Linux-cluster] porblem with quorum at cluster boot <tr valign="top"> <td>Sent by: <td><a href="mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com</a></td></td></tr></td></td></tr></td></td></tr></td></td></tr></td></td></tr> </tbody></table> <hr noshade> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"> <tt>On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 12:52 -0400, Jason_Henderson@Mitel.com wrote: > > I think you still need two_node="1" in your conf file if you want a > single node to become quorate. > two_nodes=1 is only valid if you do not have a quorum disk. > <a href="mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com</a> wrote on 09/24/2010 12:38:17 PM: > > > hello, > > > > I have a 2 node cluster with qdisk quorum partition; > > > > each node has 1 vote and the qdisk has 1 vote too; in cluster.conf > I > > have this explicit declaration: > > <cman expected_votes="3" two_node="0"\> > > > > when I have both 2 nodes active cman_tool status tell me this: > > > > Version: 6.1.0 > > Nodes: 2 > > Expected votes: 3 > > Quorum device votes: 1 > > Total votes: 3 > > Node votes: 1 > > Quorum: 2 > > > > then, if I power off a node these value, as expected, changed this > way: > > Nodes: 1 > > Total votes: 2 > > > > and the cluster is still quorate and functional. > > > > the problem is if I power off both the node and them power on only > one > > of them: in this case the single node does not quorate and the > cluster > > does not start: I have to power on both the node to have the > cluster > > (and services on the cluster) working. > > > > I'd like the cluster can work (and boot) even with a single node > (ie, if > > one of the node has hw failure and is down I still want to be able > to > > reboot the working node and have it booting correctly the cluster) > > > > any hints? (thank's for reading all this) > > > > -- > > bye, > > emilio > > > > -- > > Linux-cluster mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com" target="_blank">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> > > </tt><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank"><tt>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</tt></a><tt> > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com" target="_blank">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> > </tt><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank"><tt>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</tt></a><tt> -- Linux-cluster mailing list <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com" target="_blank">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> </tt><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank"><tt>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</tt></a><tt> </tt> </div></div> -- Linux-cluster mailing list <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a> </blockquote></div>