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You have a failover cluster named Cluster1 that hosts an application named App1.
The General tab in App1 Properties is shown in the General exhibit. (Click the General tab.)
The Failover tab in App1 Properties is shown in the Failover exhibit. (Click the Failover tab.)
Server1 shuts down unexpectedly.
You need to ensure that when you start Server1, App1 continues to run on Server2.
Solution: From the General settings, you move Server2 up.
Does this meet the goal?
- A. Yes
- B. No
- A (62%)
- B (38%)
xxxxx85xx
Highly Voted 2 years, 8 months ago
Correct Answer
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Fastdruid
Highly Voted 1 year, 8 months ago
This is a horrible question. To actually *CHANGE* the priority you have to tick the box, if you merely change the priority without ticking it then the order is ignored (ie if you click OK and then go back in it will have reverted). So as asked, if you move the server up then the answer is "No". If the question says you change the priority then "Yes" because to actually change the priority you have to tick it! Of course equally it won't fail over to Server1 as there is no Preferred Owner but that doesn't fulfil the requirement of *Ensuring* it doesn't fail over!
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Disguster
1 year, 2 months ago
You can't move the server up without ticking the box. ticking the box is implied.
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ChrisTorro
11 months ago
Tested this in home lab, you CAN move the servers in preferred owner WITHOUT ticking the box
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kenda1535
Most Recent 1 week, 1 day ago
Selected Answer: B
Answer: B Server1 and Server2 are both unticked so the order they are listed in has no effect on whether the cluster will fail back
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starseed
3 months ago
YES answer is yes
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Chamandeepsingh
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
When nodes are not selected, and you attempt to move Server 2 up, it will revert to the default order (Server 1 on top and Server 2 at the bottom) once you click Apply and OK. Answere is No
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smorar
6 months ago
Failback never occurs automatically. There must be a reason. Priority is not important in this case. Any incident that affects Server2, and according to the values in the Failover tab, or force majeure, will cause it to fail over to Server1. Only "Prevent failback" or Pause Server1 in Cluster would prevent it.
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smorar
6 months, 1 week ago
Answer is NO, because simply moving Server2 up without checking the box will not ensure that App1 continues to run on Server2 when Server1 is restarted. Preferred Owner is "any node". B. No.
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ahenriquez02
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The answer to this question is NO server1 and Server2 are both unticked so the order they are listed in has no effect on whether the cluster will fail back.
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ahenriquez02
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The answer to this question is NO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RE4MHJL?postJsllMsg=true
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SanMan_NZ
9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: B
without any of the 'Preferred Owners' nodes checkbox selected (ticked), the cluster roles Preferred Owners mode is 'Any Mode' and no preference to the order will be applied. Once any node is selected (checkbox ticked) the overall cluster roles Preferred Owners mode changes to 'User Settings' where the user selected preferred order will be applied. This is demonstrated very well in the following demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0H7QsSmQW8&t=13s
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PXAbstraction
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
Based on the exhibit as presented, the answer is B as the servers are not ticked and they have to be both to be moved and to apply. Exhibits are not supposed to require any implications. If I picked B and was told I was wrong, I would dispute this question.
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syu31svc
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: A
I would say Yes since you are setting Server2 as the preferred owner
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Lu5ck
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: A
The tick is to choose which server to press "move up" and "move down". Lol, funny explanation attempt though.
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Kurko
1 year, 9 months ago
You can move nodes up and down without ticking them but it will not save the order of nodes that are not ticked.
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DesolateMarauder
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A) Checking the box or not, Server 2 is still at the top. More Info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/failover-clustering/preferred-owners-in-a-cluster/ba-p/371290 The key point I want to make is that, when you set the preferred owners for a group to a subset of the nodes in a cluster, you’re not saying “I want the group to failover only to these nodes”. What you’re effectively saying is, “please reorder the nodes such that these are at the front of the list.” The rest of the cluster nodes will be appended to the list, and the group will still failover to every node in the cluster before going back to the first node in the preferred owners list.
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Kurko
1 year, 9 months ago
You have to check the box for the node to stay in the position on the list you chose for it.
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cris66
1 year, 11 months ago
Video mentioned by GoforIT21 shows ticking and moving to top of list. Which is confirmed by help, and says that server must be ticked. Select nodes from the list, and then use the buttons to list them in order. If you want this service or application to be moved to a particular node whenever that node is available: Select the check box for a node and use the buttons to place it at the top of the list. On the Failover tab, ensure that failback is allowed for this service or application.
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Leocan
1 year, 12 months ago
Selected Answer: A
Correct Answer
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Leocan
1 year, 12 months ago
Sorry, I meant the correct answer is A.
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Leocan
1 year, 12 months ago
In order to move Server 2 up, you must tick it first.
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valgaw
2 years, 5 months ago
According to exibit, it seems, that it's already running on Server2, so it shouldn't failover to Server1, when it comes up. There is no prefered owner selected, so it should remain on Server2 anyway. It's a bit confusing.
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GoforIT21
2 years, 2 months ago
Exactly! I don't see anything that would need to be done to prevent App1 from switching to Server1, there's no setting that makes Server1 the preferred server...
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GoforIT21
2 years, 2 months ago
I think by now that something does need to be configured - and actually, I think that moving server2 up the preferred owner list is necessary to keep the workload there. Marking a server on the list is only a way to select it in order to use the buttons to move it up or down. (Not more than one server can be selected.) Therefore, the fact that none of the boxes are checked does not mean that the order of preferred owners is not active.
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GoforIT21
2 years, 2 months ago
See this video from 2:40 onwards to back up that last claim of the irrelevance of the boxes being checked or not: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RE4MHJL?postJsllMsg=true
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LRR_1983
2 years, 2 months ago
Hey, still a bit confused. Is the given answer correct?
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lukiduc9625
2 years, 1 month ago
If you only move Server2 to first position in Preferred Owner frame without selecting them and close Failover Cluster Manager console and open it again Server2 come back to second position. One can set order of nodes only for selected ones (set as Preferred Owners). Other nodes keeps order of its adding to cluster https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/high-availability/groups-fail-logic-three-more-cluster-node-members But generally you are right - because Preferred Owners are no set failback will not occur
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lukiduc9625
2 years, 1 month ago
Selecting boxes on list of Preferred Owner is relevant! If nothing is selected in Preferred Owner frame in properties of clustered role it has meaning "Preferred Owners: Any node" - it is shown when you select clustered role in Failover Cluster Manager on title bar of middle-lower window. You can also aknowledge that there are no Preferred Owners are selected by using PS command: Get-ClusterGroup -Name App1 | Get-ClusterOwnerNode which shows following result: ClusterObject OwnerNodes ------------- ---------- App1 {} If you select box at Server2 you set this server as Preferred Owner (it can be more than one). Mentioned PS command will show: ClusterObject OwnerNodes ------------- ---------- App1 {Server2}
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silliussoddus
2 years, 5 months ago
Incorrect. You would need to check the boxes in order to change the server order. If server 2 is moved up then this would take priority.
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