Today I was playing around with Windows Server 2025 (preview). One interesting feature is that is now possible to built Hyper-V cluster (in this case with “traditional” storage (I have presented it via iSCSI)) without Active Directory domain.

In previous versions it was possible to built so called workgroup clusters but in Hyper-V context it was not recommended and also a bit useless as it supported only quick and not live migration.

Well Microsoft did a great job by supporting workgroup clusters also with Hyper-V.

Here is a video that shows two node workgroup cluster and live migration of a small Ubuntu VM. 🙂 Enjoy!