Hyper-v Quorum is it still needed?

[nicholab]

Do you still need Hyper-v Quorum and which version of hyper-v was this not a requirement? The reason being is that my Quorum Lun sit right in the middle of the LUN space I want to reuse.

[HPlum78]

A Quorum is a requirement of clustering not Hyper-V there are now other ways of achieving HA with Hyper-V on server 2012R2 using other methods https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2012/11/05/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-high-availability-without-a-san/

also see here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form/.

Edited February 3, 2017 by HPlum78

[FN-GM]

Do you still need Hyper-v Quorum and which version of hyper-v was this not a requirement? The reason being is that my Quorum Lun sit right in the middle of the LUN space I want to reuse.

 

Yep! Otherwise the clustered hosts won't know what to do if your network switch goes offline.

[nicholab]

How do you migrate the Quorum when the wizards suggest it is not a recommended configuration?

[ChrisH]

I'm sure I've just made a new quorum disk in the past and swapped over.