Enabling the Weighted Priority Election process allows the device with the highest weight to always be selected as the parent member. Disabling Weighted Priority Election process means the current parent member remains the parent device even when a new member with a higher weight is added into the cluster.

The weight is the user-defined priority of the member in the cluster. If two members have the same weight assigned, there will still be one parent and one child, but the selection of the parent member is based on an internal algorithm. If you enable Weighted Priority Election, cluster members are prohibited from having equal weights.

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