Cluster File Share witness

[techie17]

I need to move the location of our hyper V cluster file share quorum witness and wondered if this is a straight forward and easy thing to do? Im hoping that its just a case of changing the location of the Quorum file share witness in Failover Cluster manager?

 

Thanks

Edited November 27, 2019 by techie17

[ronnoco]

I've not done it myself but it seems like you do:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/manage-cluster-quorum

 

Change the quorum configuration in a failover cluster by using Failover Cluster Manager

In Failover Cluster Manager, select or specify the cluster that you want to change.

 

With the cluster selected, under Actions, select More Actions, and then select Configure Cluster Quorum Settings. The Configure Cluster Quorum Wizard appears. Select Next.

 

On the Select Quorum Configuration Option page, select one of the three configuration options and complete the steps for that option. Before you configure the quorum settings, you can review your choices. For more information about the options, see Understanding quorum, earlier in this topic.

 

To allow the cluster to automatically reset the quorum settings that are optimal for your current cluster configuration, select Use typical settings and then complete the wizard.

 

To add or change the quorum witness, select Add or change the quorum witness, and then complete the following steps. For information and considerations about configuring a quorum witness, see Witness configuration earlier in this topic.

 

On the Select Quorum Witness page, select an option to configure a disk witness or a file share witness. The wizard indicates the witness selection options that are recommended for your cluster.

 

Note

 

You can also select Do not configure a quorum witness and then complete the wizard. If you have an even number of voting nodes in your cluster, this may not be a recommended configuration.

 

If you select the option to configure a disk witness, on the Configure Storage Witness page, select the storage volume that you want to assign as the disk witness, and then complete the wizard.

 

If you select the option to configure a file share witness, on the Configure File Share Witness page, type or browse to a file share that will be used as the witness resource, and then complete the wizard.

 

To configure quorum management settings and to add or change the quorum witness, select Advanced quorum configuration and witness selection, and then complete the following steps. For information and considerations about the advanced quorum configuration settings, see Node vote assignment and Dynamic quorum management earlier in this topic.

 

On the Select Voting Configuration page, select an option to assign votes to nodes. By default, all nodes are assigned a vote. However, for certain scenarios, you can assign votes only to a subset of the nodes.

 

Note

 

You can also select No Nodes. This is generally not recommended, because it does not allow nodes to participate in quorum voting, and it requires configuring a disk witness. This disk witness becomes the single point of failure for the cluster.

 

On the Configure Quorum Management page, you can enable or disable the Allow cluster to dynamically manage the assignment of node votes option. Selecting this option generally increases the availability of the cluster. By default the option is enabled, and it is strongly recommended to not disable this option. This option allows the cluster to continue running in failure scenarios that are not possible when this option is disabled.

 

On the Select Quorum Witness page, select an option to configure a disk witness or a file share witness. The wizard indicates the witness selection options that are recommended for your cluster.

 

Note

 

You can also select Do not configure a quorum witness, and then complete the wizard. If you have an even number of voting nodes in your cluster, this may not be a recommended configuration.

 

If you select the option to configure a disk witness, on the Configure Storage Witness page, select the storage volume that you want to assign as the disk witness, and then complete the wizard.

 

If you select the option to configure a file share witness, on the Configure File Share Witness page, type or browse to a file share that will be used as the witness resource, and then complete the wizard.

 

Select Next. Confirm your selections on the confirmation page that appears, and then select Next.

 

After the wizard runs and the Summary page appears, if you want to view a report of the tasks that the wizard performed, select View Report. The most recent report will remain in the systemroot\Cluster\Reports folder with the name QuorumConfiguration.mht.

 

Note

 

After you configure the cluster quorum, we recommend that you run the Validate Quorum Configuration test to verify the updated quorum settings.