<html><body><p>Hi all... <br><br>I have a few very basic questions for the group.<br><br>I have a 5 node (Linux on Z LPARs) pacemaker cluster with 100 VirtualDomain pacemaker-remote nodes<br>plus 100 "opaque" VirtualDomain resources. The cluster is configured to be 'symmetric' and I have no<br>location constraints on the 200 VirtualDomain resources (other than to prevent the opaque guests<br>from running on the pacemaker remote node resources). My quorum is set as: <br><br>quorum {<br> provider: corosync_votequorum<br>}<br><br>As an experiment, I powered down one LPAR in the cluster, leaving 4 powered up with the pcsd service up on the 4 survivors <br>but corosync/pacemaker down (pcs cluster stop --all) on the 4 survivors. I then started pacemaker/corosync on a single cluster<br>node (pcs cluster start), and this resulted in the 200 VirtualDomain resources activating on the single node. <br>This was not what I was expecting. I assumed that no resources would activate / start on any cluster nodes<br>until 3 out of the 5 total cluster nodes had pacemaker/corosync running. <br><br>After starting pacemaker/corosync on the single host (zs95kjpcs1), this is what I see : <br><br>[root@zs95kj VD]# date;pcs status |less<br>Wed Sep 7 15:51:17 EDT 2016<br>Cluster name: test_cluster_2<br>Last updated: Wed Sep 7 15:51:18 2016 Last change: Wed Sep 7 15:30:12 2016 by hacluster via crmd on zs93kjpcs1<br>Stack: corosync<br>Current DC: zs95kjpcs1 (version 1.1.13-10.el7_2.ibm.1-44eb2dd) - partition with quorum<br>106 nodes and 304 resources configured<br><br><font color="#FF0000">Node zs93KLpcs1: pending</font><br><font color="#FF0000">Node zs93kjpcs1: pending</font><br><font color="#FF0000">Node zs95KLpcs1: pending</font><br><font color="#008000">Online: [ zs95kjpcs1 ]</font><br>OFFLINE: [ zs90kppcs1 ]<br><br>.<br>.<br>.<br>PCSD Status:<br><font color="#008000"> zs93kjpcs1: Online</font><br><font color="#008000"> zs95kjpcs1: Online</font><br><font color="#008000"> zs95KLpcs1: Online</font><br><font color="#FF0000"> zs90kppcs1: Offline</font><br><font color="#008000"> zs93KLpcs1: Online</font><br><br>So, what exactly constitutes an "Online" vs. "Offline" cluster node w.r.t. quorum calculation? Seems like in my case, it's "pending" on 3 nodes, <br>so where does that fall? Any why "pending"? What does that mean? <br><br>Also, what exactly is the cluster's expected reaction to quorum loss? Cluster resources will be stopped or something else?<br><br>Where can I find this documentation? <br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Scott Greenlese - IBM Solution Test Team. <br><br><br><br>Scott Greenlese ... IBM Solutions Test, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.<br> INTERNET: swgreenl@us.ibm.com <br> PHONE: 8/293-7301 (845-433-7301) M/S: POK 42HA/P966<br><BR>
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