
Therefore, the cluster needs to have a Cluster Network Name (also known as administrative access point) of type DNS.

New-itemproperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy -Value 1

Builtin administrator accounts include the 'Administrator' account. When using a non-builtin local administrator account to create the cluster, set the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry policy to 1, on all the nodes of the cluster.The account is a member of the local ‘Administrators’ group on each node.The username and password of the account must be the same on all nodes.Create a local ‘User’ account on each node in the cluster.To create a new cluster or to add nodes to the cluster, a local account needs to be provisioned on all nodes of the cluster (as well as the node from which the operation is invoked) with the following requirements:.In addition to the pre-requisites of Single-domain clusters, the following are the pre-requisites for Multi-domain or Workgroup clusters in the Windows Server 2016: For more information, see Failover Clustering Hardware Requirements and Storage Options and Validate Hardware for a Failover Cluster. All servers must use logo’d hardware that has been certified and the collection of servers must pass all cluster validation tests.All servers must have the Failover Clustering feature installed.All servers must be running Windows Server 2016.The prerequisites for Single-domain clusters are unchanged from previous versions of Windows Server. Workgroup Clusters: Clusters with nodes which are member servers / workgroup (not domain joined).Multi-domain Clusters: Clusters with nodes which are members of different domains.Single-domain Clusters: Clusters with all nodes joined to the same domain.Failover Clusters can now therefore be created in the following configurations:

Windows Server 2016 breaks down these barriers and introduces the ability to create a Failover Cluster without Active Directory dependencies. In Windows Server 2012 R2 and previous versions, a cluster could only be created between member nodes joined to the same domain.
