Dear Fellow Engineers,
As you may already built a lot more cluster than me, I would like to ask about your opinion for the following plan: We would like to create a two-node only Hyper-V cluster with a separate SAS attached storage. The deployment would contain two things that I'm not sure about:
-Unfortunately it is impossible to involve a third host as a domain controller (for being separate rather than running on the cluster nodes), so we would deploy DC1 and DC2 on the two-hosts as local virtual machines (C:\VirtualMachines) in order to have a domain environment. Therefore if any host restarts, there should be always a DC available.
-The two host's Live Migration and CSV network adapter would be direct cabled without using a switch.
Based on the two things, I would like to ask the following:
A: Is the local running DCs on the nodes themselves supported? Have anybody built an environment like this? In my mind, this would work without problem, but I'm afraid of hidden problems which may come to the surface after several months (for ex: one of the hosts fall out from the domain etc.).
B: Is the direct cabled LM/CSV NIC supported? In the past I've built the same (but then I had separate DCs) and it worked, but when running CAU, every time the problem was because of the direct connection, the cluster felt that these two adapter's Ethernet link has gone, therefore "cluster network failed" error messages showed up in the events section. I don't know if anybody used the same or faced the same problem, but I guess that not I'm the only one. And this issue occurs every time that CAU runs, because the hosts restarts, so obviously the link is gone for a few seconds because of the direct connection.
Thank you really much for your help!
Best Regards,
Christian