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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Build virtualized environments using the Proxmox VE hypervisor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397605
Length 494 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Preface 1. Understanding Proxmox VE and Advanced Installation 2. Creating a Cluster and Exploring the Proxmox GUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Proxmox under the Hood 4. Storage Systems 5. Installing and Configuring Ceph 6. KVM Virtual Machines 7. LXC Virtual Machines 8. Network of Virtual Networks 9. The Proxmox VE Firewall 10. Proxmox High Availability 11. Monitoring the Proxmox Cluster 12. Proxmox Production-Level Setup 13. Back Up and Restore Virtual Machines 14. Updating/Upgrading Proxmox 15. Proxmox Troubleshooting 16. Rescuing Proxmox

Recovering from a quorum failure

There are various reason why a Proxmox cluster can lose a quorum. For the cluster to operate correctly, a quorum must exist within the nodes. A quorum is established when the majority of the nodes are online. If 51% of the nodes go offline for whatever reason, a quorum will be lost, resulting in a cluster error. A Proxmox quorum relies on multicast. So if multicast gets disabled in the switch, the cluster can also lose a quorum. A manual misconfiguration in the cluster file can also cause loss of a quorum. When a quorum is lost, the following error messages will appear in log files under /var/log/corosync:

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corosync[9999]: [QUORUM] Quorum provider: corosync_votequorum failed to initialize. corosync[9999]: [SERV ] Service engine 'corosync_quorum' failed to load for reason 'configuration error: nodelist...
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