I have a 2008R2 domain with (2)2008R2 nodes in a cluster. I have 2 questions
1. If I "validate the cluster" and it is a cluster with several 10TB disk on it, etc. will it take a long time to validate? Just want to make sure that step does not cause any issues on a running cluster in production
2. When a node reboots for Windows updates, the cluster does a good job on continuing to ping, but it is basically offline for about 7 minutes. Is there something I can do to speed up the failover process?
Thanks,
Dave