About disk group configuration and VCS behavior

Disk group state and VCS behavior describes how the disk group state and the failover attribute define VCS behavior when a node loses connectivity to shared storage.

Disk group state and VCS behavior

Case

DiskGroup State

Failover Attribute

VCS Behavior on Loss of Storage Connectivity

Enabled 

N seconds 

Fails over service groups to another node. 

Disabled 

N seconds 

DiskGroup resource remains online.  

No failover.  

Enabled 

DiskGroup resource remains in monitor timed out state.  

No failover.  

Disabled 

DiskGroup resource remains online.  

No failover.