First off, thanks for taking the time to look at this, i've opened a ticket /w MS, but while i wait ...i though i'd pose the question to the forums as well
I have an issue whereby when my link between facilities drops for more than (not entirely sure, not long at all, minutes?) both cluster configurations I have seem to loose quorum and access to the desired "primary" databases is lost.
We are using AlwaysOn as a DR strategy, and I "THINK" my issue is that i need to change the vote level to 0 for anything but the primary SQL servers.
Regardless if the replicas are online or not, i NEVER want the cluster to put the databases on the primary servers innacessible
I have two seperate Failover Clusters configured...
Cluster 1 = node majority
Server 1 > replicating to Server 3
Server 2 > replicating to server 3
When the wan link between facilities goes down (Server 1 and 2 are in one location, Server 3 is in a remote location) the quorum looses majority and ACCESS to server 1 and server 2's databases seems to go offline while its resolving
Custer 2 = Node and File Share Majority
Server 1 > replicating to server 2
Same scenario, Server 1 and Server 2 are in different facilities, when that link goes down, even with Server 1 and the File share being in the same site, the cluster looses quorum, and access to databases on Server 1 stops