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In a 2 node WSFC where Node 1 owns the disk witness, would Node 1 crashing result in the entire cluster going down (loss of quorum because only 1/3 votes remain)?

Or does disk witness ownership transfer to Node 2 regardless of whether Node 1 was powered down gracefully or not?

Marcus
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Assuming the disk witness is properly setup, the cluster should stay online. A regroup event will occur to ask for votes, it will be noticed that the surviving partition is 1 off quorum and will attempt to arbitrate for the witness. If the witness is successfully arbitrated, the votes needed for quorum will be achieved and the cluster will stay online.

Sean Gallardy
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