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Alexander
Asked: 2021-07-12 12:03:44 +0800 CST

How to deal with AD when deploy Hyper-V cluster?

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I try to plan Hyper-V cluster deployment over several host servers (10 or maybe 12; hosts are rented) placed in two separate datacenters. This will be Hyper-V Server 2019 Core hosts. The problem is, I don't know if I should rely on AD for host auth, and if not, then what's the best way to maintain the cluster.

The main idea was to create Hyper-V cluster that's not connected to office AD servers so even if office goes down for a long time services in datacenters should stay alive. I have no physical hosts in datacenters to serve AD only, all of these hosts are for Hyper-V, and I don't want to host AD controllers as VMs as it kills the whole idea.

Feel I miss something as I believe this is the question for each and every Hyper-V deplyment on a remote location, so pleace advice best way of how to work this out.

Thank you!

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  1. The main idea was to create Hyper-V cluster that's not connected to office AD servers so even if office goes down for a long time services in datacenters should stay alive.

    What is the logic behind that give nthat "AD servers goes down" is a non issue if 2 of them live on the cluster, AND the cluster since 2019 can live and start without AD?

    and I don't want to host AD controllers as VMs as it kills the whole idea.

    Nope, it does not. It follows best practices.

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