Configure Quorum NodeWeight Settings

This topic describes how to configure NodeWeight settings for a member node in a Windows

Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster. NodeWeight settings are used during quorum voting

to support disaster recovery and multi-subnet scenarios for Always On availability groups and

Failover Cluster Instances.

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Using Powershell

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Using Cluster.exe

This feature is supported only in Windows Server 2008 or later versions.

The user must be a domain account that is member of the local Administrators group on each

node of the WSFC cluster.

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Important

In order to use NodeWeight settings, the following hotfix must be applied to all servers in

the WSFC cluster:

: A hotfix is available to let you configure a cluster node that does not have

quorum votes in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

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Tip

If this hotfix is not installed, the examples in this topic will return empty or NULL values for

NodeWeight.