I have 2 physical storage nodes with alma linux and zfs, and a 3rd one that is virtual machine again with alma. A cluster is configured with the 3 nodes and the 2 phisycal ones are satelites and the 3rd (VM) is combined which is diskless. What is the proper way to configure the 3rd one to be a q…

If you disable DRBD Reactor on the diskless node, DRBD Reactor will not attempt to start services there. systemctl disable drbd-reactor.service --now Alternatively, you could configure a node preference on the promoter resources so that pod1 and pod2 are preferred over pod3, but node preferences p…

Thank you for the advice , i will try it tomorrow

Hello, Thank you for the advice , it actually worked. I just have a few follow up question. with disabled drbd-reactor.service will that affect the HA of the cluster or the quorom? What will happen if for example pod1 and pod3(TieBreaker) go down? Will POD 2 automatically becaome primary? Or if…

DRBD Reactor relies on the quorum of each DRBD device it manages. As long as the DRBD devices DRBD Reactor is managing have quorum on a node, DRBD Reactor will be able to have those nodes take over the Primary role. In a case where two nodes go down unexpectedly, there would not be quorum, and the…

Quorom configuration problems

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pbalabanov September 13, 2025, 7:26am 6

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation!

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