I believe this will work for you. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494036

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From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dag issue?

Do you know if there is a way to have a two node multisite Dag that cannot 
failover unless I want to. I don't mean -Activateonly where the DB on the 
remote site cannot come up, I mean where the primary node can have its witness 
get rebooted or itself and the DBs in the Primary will always come up with out 
the remote node stealing quorum?

Regards

Paul.





From: Paul Cookman 
[mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]<mailto:[mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]>
Sent: 28 May 2012 12:31
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dag issue?

What I don't understand is why it effected all databases on the server when 
there was only one DB in the dag, it doesn't sound right because what if I 
wanted to have an active active?

From: Steve Goodman 
[mailto:st...@stevieg.org]<mailto:[mailto:st...@stevieg.org]>
Sent: 28 May 2012 09:07
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dag issue?

If it's multi-site yep

Steve

From: Paul Cookman 
[mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]<mailto:[mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]>
Sent: 28 May 2012 08:49
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dag issue?

This does sound like what happened, I was a bit surprised as I only had one 
test DB in the Dag, I didn't expect it to effect all databases.

Would you still go with having DAC mode on?

From: Steve Goodman 
[mailto:st...@stevieg.org]<mailto:[mailto:st...@stevieg.org]>
Sent: 28 May 2012 07:30
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: dag issue?

As a first point of call I would look at increasing the cluster timeout 
settings. I've heard similar things about Veeam before during backup - mainly 
nodes failing over and IIRC there is some threads on the Veeam Community site 
about the issue.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

On 27 May 2012, at 11:07, "Paul Cookman" 
<paul.cook...@selection.co.uk<mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk>> wrote:
I had an issue Friday morning I wanted to run past someone. I have created a 
two node Dag multisite with witness in the primary site, DAC enabled. I am 
testing as I go so I only had a test DB as part of the DAG. (Servers are 
Virtualised and use Veeam for backups) While committing the snapshot the 
primary server momentarily lost communication to all servers and all the (LIVE) 
databases dismounted and wouldn't remount. In a state of panic I removed the 
Dag to get users working again.

I think from going through the logs that possibly the remote site node got 
quorum of the witness and then it believed that the databases were up on the 
remote site (set to Activate only and not automatic by the way). Possibly if I 
had rebooted the remote server the primary would of got quorum again and 
allowed me to mount databases?

Any thoughts on this as I need to be able to reboot the primary server if 
needed without the databases not being able to mount. I don't mind my failover 
being completely a manual process.

What do you think on what happened and a solution to my problem?

Kindest regards,

Paul.



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