Thursday, January 14, 2016

Windows 2012 R2 cluster - confusing error message

Following error is found in the cluster log:

000002e4.000016b8::2015/12/16-06:00:51.667 WARN  [QUORUM] Node 1: weight adjustment not performed. Cannot go below weight count 3 in a hybrid configuration with 2+ nodes

This error does not mean that hybrid configuration can't survive weight count going below count 3.  Windows 2012 R2 2 physical node cluster + File Share Witness (FSW) properly surviving failure of one of the physical nodes (therefore having the weight count going to 2).