As far as I know the nodes in the cluster need to be joined to a domain for you to be able to manage and even enable clustering.
My question is, if you have X amount of nodes that you want to put in a cluster and don't have a domain controller, what is a relatively easy way to accomplish this?
My goal, regardless of the hypervisor I plan to ultimately stick with, was to make at least one of my VMs the domain controller. So should I just work on one node, install the AD role, configure the domain, and then join the hypervisor host + the other nodes to that virtual DC and then I can manage failover clustering?
Just wondering how other folks have done this.
My question is, if you have X amount of nodes that you want to put in a cluster and don't have a domain controller, what is a relatively easy way to accomplish this?
My goal, regardless of the hypervisor I plan to ultimately stick with, was to make at least one of my VMs the domain controller. So should I just work on one node, install the AD role, configure the domain, and then join the hypervisor host + the other nodes to that virtual DC and then I can manage failover clustering?
Just wondering how other folks have done this.