In the Failover Cluster Manager Console, should the Cluster Core Resource (the name of the Exchange DAG) automatically go back to Online after the Witness Server is restarted?
I have two Exchange Mailbox servers and one witness server (not an Exchange server) in a Database Availability Group (DAG). When I restart the witness server, the Cluster Core Resource server (in the Failover Cluster Manager) stays in an “Offline” state until I run “Get-ClusterGroup “Cluster Group” | Move-ClusterGroup –Node name-of-dag”.
Note – I understand the witness server in this scenario is strictly used for quorum and I’ve verified the “Offline” state does not affect replication health. I am most concerned with quorum. I am trying to avoid any problems in the event the Cluster Core Resource server does not come back online, someone forgets to run “Get-ClusterGroup “Cluster Group” | Move-ClusterGroup –Node name-of-dag” and one of the two Exchange Mailboxes in the DAG fails.
Please advise.