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    There are four ways to determine quorum in Windows Server 2008: Node Majority, Node and Disk Majority, Node and File Share Majority, and No Majority: Disk Only. The Exchange Transport Dumpster was introduced in Exchange 2007 to prevent data loss for continuous cluster replication and local continuous replication. It has been updated in Exchange 2013 and is now called the Safety Net.

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    Microsoft Exchange Transport Dumpster

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    There are four ways to determine quorum in Windows Server 2008: Node Majority, Node and Disk Majority, Node and File Share Majority, and No Majority: Disk Only. The Exchange Transport Dumpster was introduced in Exchange 2007 to prevent data loss for continuous cluster replication and local continuous replication. It has been updated in Exchange 2013 and is now called the Safety Net.

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    There are four ways to determine quorum in Windows Server 2008: Node Majority, Node and Disk Majority, Node and File Share Majority, and No Majority: Disk Only. The Exchange Transport Dumpster was introduced in Exchange 2007 to prevent data loss for continuous cluster replication and local continuous replication. It has been updated in Exchange 2013 and is now called the Safety Net.

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    Let's take a look at the four ways of determining quorum in Windows Server 2008:

    Node Majority-- With the Node Majority model, each of the nodes that make up the
    server cluster gets a vote that counts toward quorum. The quorum disk itself does not
    have a vote. The cluster will function when more than half of the nodes in the cluster
    are operational, which means this model is used only when there are an odd number of
    nodes in the cluster. Remember that although the Node Majority model doesn't give its
    disk a vote, that disk is still a requirement for cluster operations.
    Node and Disk Majority -- The vast majority of Windows clusters are two-node clusters.
    This has traditionally been the case because of the complexities of creating multi-node
    clusters as well as their cost. Two-node clusters cannot be created using the Node
    Majority mode -- as they have an even node count -- so in this alternate architecture,
    the disk resource itself also gets a vote. Used for server clusters that have an even
    number of nodes, the Node and Disk Majority requires more than half of the nodes plus
    the quorum drive itself to be operational for quorum to be achieved.
    Node and File Share Majority -- Windows Server 2008 now includes support for
    geographically distributed clusters, those that are not bound by the length of the
    physical cables separating the nodes. Among other things, this support comes about
    with the conversion of cluster heartbeat communications from broadcast traffic to TCP-
    based traffic, which allows that portion of cluster communication to span subnets.
    However, to create such a geo-cluster, both nodes can no longer functionally share the
    same storage. Thus, a special type of quorum drive was created that resides on a file
    share that is accessible by both nodes. This special cluster type also works for workloads
    that do not require shared storage, such as Exchange CCR clusters and some limited
    Hyper-V clustering arrangements.
    No Majority: Disk Only -- This last quorum model relies only on the availability of the
    shared disk itself for determining quorum. It is effectively the same as what's used in
    older versions of Windows clustering. Because of its single point of failure reliance on
    the disk's presence, this model is rarely recommended for use in production
    environments.


    Microsoft Exchange Transport Dumpster

    The Exchange Transport Dumpster is a feature that exists in Exchange 2007
    andExchange 2010 to prevent data loss. The transport dumpster has been revamped
    in Exchange 2013 and is now known as the Safety Net.
    First introduced in Exchange 2007, the transport dumpster exists on the hub
    transport server and is only enabled for continuous cluster replication (CCR) and
    local continuous replication (LCR). Administrators can configure either so that after a
    clustered mailbox server goes down, it comes back online with limited data loss
    because messages stored in the dumpster are still sent to users.
    Similarly, in Exchange 2010 the transport dumpster still exists on the hub transport
    server, but because CCR and LCR were replaced by database availability
    groups(DAGs), it now works with them. When a message is sent from the hub
    transport server to a DAG, the message is stored in the transport dumpster so in
    case of failure, messages can still be sent to users.

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