Hi,
I am trying to create a failover cluster without AD. The 2 Winserver 2016 machines are in Azure cloud.
They are on same subnet but workgroup machines. able to ping each other using the private IP.
In order to create a domain independent failover cluster in Azure, i followed the instructions here
http://woshub.com/workgroup-failover-cluster-windows-server-2016/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Premier-Field-Engineering/Domain-Independent-Cluster-and-Availability-Group/ba-p/371462
Since i do not have a DNS server, i am using FQDN of the workgroup machines.
I added the Failover cluster role , when i open "Failover cluster managaer" and click create a new cluster, i am unable to find the 2nd machine to add to cluster.
Basically, i have 1 machine with FCI role installed, but unable to add the 2nd machine.
In command prompt i cannot ping both of them using fqdn, but ping through ip address works fine.I feel i missed out on some settings in IP address or DNS address.
Can someone guide me on the prerequisites or step by step instruction to create a domain independent failover cluster?
After this is complete, i need to add SQL server always on availability group on top of this...