Re: [PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-12 Thread Dmitry Petuhov
12.04.2017 12:30, Alessandro Briosi wrote: > I'd like the cluster to make the 4th host not partecipate to the quorum. That's strange setup. I don't think it's really supported. But you can try to set it manually in cluster config: nodelist { node { ring0_addr: x.x

Re: [PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-12 Thread Alessandro Briosi
Il 11/04/2017 21:51, Jeff Palmer ha scritto: > By default, in a 4 node cluster, 3 members would need to agree for quorum, > not 2. In your example, if 2 hosts split from the other 2 hosts, neither > side will have quorum. No split brain in that scenario. > > Think of quorum as a 'majority wins' v

Re: [PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 12/04/2017 2:39 AM, Dietmar Maurer wrote: That is not really necessary, because we use quorum (majority decides). Cluster switch to read only mode I no partition has quorum, so there is no danger. so for a 4 node cluster would quorum be 3 nodes? -- Lindsay Mathieson ___

Re: [PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-11 Thread Jeff Palmer
By default, in a 4 node cluster, 3 members would need to agree for quorum, not 2. In your example, if 2 hosts split from the other 2 hosts, neither side will have quorum. No split brain in that scenario. Think of quorum as a 'majority wins' vote. If the vote is a tie, there is no winner. On Apr

Re: [PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-11 Thread Dietmar Maurer
> Should the cluster always be composed by an odd number of hosts? That is not really necessary, because we use quorum (majority decides). Cluster switch to read only mode I no partition has quorum, so there is no danger. > I'm not using HA so if I move some VM from one host to the other I'm > aw

[PVE-User] cluster numbers

2017-04-11 Thread Alessandro Briosi
Hi all, I have a question about cluster quorum (proxmox 4). I currently have a 3 host cluster with shared storage (gluster). I have an old machine which I could use as a backup/service in case of some host failure, though adding this server to the cluster would make the cluter composed of 4 hosts