Hi,
In my lab environment I have 3 SQL Servers participating in Always On AG that based on WFCS,
I set a file share witness so i have 4 potential votes.
from what i understood, if there are 3 nodes and 1 file share, the file share's vote is not takes into account,
and only if 1 of the nodes fails, the cluster will reorgenize the vote system and give 1 vote to the file share and 2 to the other nodes that still alive...
my question is, when I've entered the Cluster Quorum Information in the AO AG Dashboard (in the ssms), I saw that there are 4 members, 3 nodes and 1 file share witness, but under the vote count I saw that all 4 members got 1 vote, so there is an even number of vote and it does not make any sense to me... how it is that there are odd number of nodes and the file share vote is taken into account?
illustration picture (imagine that there is a "file share witness" with 1 "vote count", additional to those 3 members):
