No Quorum on one of three nodes

[nexer]

Hi All!

I'm using Proxmox a long time already, and really enjoying it!
A couple of weeks back I've added a third node into my datacenter. And now I'm facing some issues with quorum, at least I think these are issues.

Some background:
I've had two HPE DL360G9's as nodes, after a lot of reading it was clear to me that I needed an Q-Device for quorum if I wanted HA on those two nodes. So I did add an Q-Device on a VM I have running on Azure. Works great, not a problem at all.

Recently I did welcome the new (at least to me) DL360G9, the third one. But with a bit more resources. I've installed Proxmox joined it in to the datacenter and started rolling.
Last week I did discover that there are some quorom issues, at least I think.
The new third note is showing NR. PVECM status:

Cluster information
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Name:             VMH-CLSTR01
Config Version:   23
Transport:        knet
Secure auth:      on

Quorum information
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Date:             Thu Mar 27 12:26:19 2025
Quorum provider:  corosync_votequorum
Nodes:            3
Node ID:          0x00000003
Ring ID:          1.1f1
Quorate:          Yes

Votequorum information
----------------------
Expected votes:   3
Highest expected: 3
Total votes:      3
Quorum:           2 
Flags:            Quorate

Membership information
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    Nodeid      Votes    Qdevice Name
0x00000001          1  NA,NV,NMW *.*.*.14
0x00000002          1  NA,NV,NMW *.*.*.13
0x00000003          1         NR *.*.*.17 (local)
0x00000000          0            Qdevice (votes 0)

If I remeber correctly, when I was doing maintenance once and restarted one node, all of them (three) would restart. I thought maybe coincidence that the Q-device was not available or something like that. But after looking is to this I did see those weird node votes.

Is there somone who can clarify this? I've been reading around on the forum and interner, even asked my big friend "Always Information"<CGPT but I cant seem to find a good answer.

Thanks guys!

 

[SteveITS]

You don't actually need the Qdevice with 3 servers. That would give you 4 total votes and you'd then need 3 to have a quorum. (because 3 is over half of 4)

So is your question here why the Qdevice shows 0 votes?

Technically one can change the number of votes per server but that doesn't necessarily help except for low server counts.

 

[nexer]

That sounds logic indeed, never thought of that, facepalm.

Well, the Q-device show 0 votes. Node 3 shows 1 vote but the Qdevice status is NR, that should be NA,NV,NMW right?