I'm planning on having two physical hosts connected to a SAN. I'm looking for the proper procedure on how to setup clustering between the two. I thinking I should install Microsoft Server 2012 Datacenter on both physical hosts. I would install the Hyper-V and Failover Cluster roles on both physical hosts. I want to run the rest of my servers as VMs through Hyper-V.
Can I install my Active Directory Domain Controllers as VMs without having authentication problems? The reason I ask is both physical hosts will not have AD installed only Hyper-V and the Failover Cluster roles. Do I need to join the physical host servers to the domain after AD is setup on the VMs or will they problems during the next boot since the VMs will not start until the server is up and running?
I'm just looking for some best practice advice. Thanks!