Configuring your Environment for Software RAID
Configuring the Environment
•Ensure that the Quorum Server link is close to the Ethernet links in your setup. In cases of failures of all Ethernet and Fibre channel links, the nodes can easily access the Quorum Server for arbitration.
•The Quorum Server is configured in a third location only for arbitration. In scenarios where the link between two nodes is lost, each node considers the other node to be dead. As a result, both nodes will try to access the Quorum Server. The Quorum Server, as an arbitrator, acknowledges the node that reaches it first and allows the package to start on that node.
•You also need to configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) in your environment. This protocol resolves the time differences that could occur in a network. For example, nodes in different time zones.
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