What quorum model utilizes Microsoft Azure and is used in stretch clusters?

Question

a. Cloud Majority
b. Node and Disk Majority
c. Node Majority
d. Cloud witness

Answer 1

The answer is option D (Cloud Witness).

Cloud witness is a quorum model that utilizes Microsoft Azure and is used in stretch clusters to stretch the cluster across geographic locations for disaster recovery

The following are some of the scenarios that are supported the use of Cloud Witness as a quorum witness:

• Disaster recovery stretched multi-site clusters
• Failover Clusters without shared storage
• Failover Clusters running inside Guest OS hosted in Azure VM or inside Guest OS of Virtual Machines hosted in private clouds.
• Failover Clusters running
• Storage clusters with or without shared storage
• Small branch-office clusters

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