2 nodes Hyper-V solution without Domain

[kyo]

Hello,
I'm planning to create a simple cluster based on Hyper-V 2019 and StarWind VSAN Free software.
I have two bure-metal hosts with 4 disks on each (RAID1 on NVMe and second RAID1 on standard HDDs). There is no Windows domain on this environment, but Hyper-V 2019 already don't have that requirement to clustering as I know. I have the possibility to create a witness share drive from another location. There are two NICs on each host - one dedicated for synchro and second for management and Heartbeat. On Cluster will be only a few small VMs.
Is this setup will be correct to work with StarWInd VSAN or I forgot about something? I read about windows domain requirement in StarWind documentation but on this forum, someone wrote about WORKGROUP setup.

Best Regards,
Kris

[yaroslav (staff)]

Welcome to StarWind Forum.
It is a must to use 2x physical cards and dedicated connections for iSCSI and Synchronization (https://www.starwindsoftware.com/system-requirements and https://www.starwindsoftware.com/best-p ... practices/). In total, you need at least 3 physical links and 2 physical cards.
True, you can create a cluster with no domain but live migration will not work. Given that, I'd like to recommend spinning up 2x VMs as described here https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... san-usage/.
Could you please be more specific: are you going to use a disk witness or a file share witness for your failover cluster?