Node Majority Strategy – a remedy to the split brain pain
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Split brain is a state when active cluster nodes lose all synchronization and heartbeat connections between them, which may lead to some serious errors. It can be a real nightmare for a system administrator to deal with the split brain consequences. To solve the problem once and for all, StarWind offers several reliable strategies allowing to prevent a split brain syndrome, and one of them is Node Majority Strategy.Read the full article by Sergey Sanduliak, a Technical Support Engineer at StarWind, to learn how to avoid a split brain.
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Good read and it explains very clearly what split-brain is, and how to prevent it in simple enough terms.
I've had to explain many times myself what split-brain is and ways to prevent it. I just get starred at. . .