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Local quorum: you just need to have a locally attached disk where
quorum information is stored, and that must be present. Local quo-
rum is appropriate for any environment that does not have a storage
interconnect. Local quorum is appropriate for lone-wolf clusters—in
other words, single-node clusters.
Majority node set: you need to have a majority of the nodes up and
running the Microsoft cluster service for the cluster to be considered
healthy and operable. This mode of quorum is only applicable for
clusters that have three nodes or more and are appropriate in that you
do not need to provision storage ...