Originally, I planned to use a clustered SMB file share to store virtual machines and related data for our Hyper-V hosts to access/use.
I recently found that my company applies a GPO that prevents both storing credentials in Credential Manager and delegating credentials to other servers (except through Kerberos). They have rejected my request to remove this GPO.
In my situation, Kerberos is not an option as I need to use a local account. The virtual machines stay in a workgroup throughout the provisioning process and aren't added to the domain until the final step before deployment.
Currently, I am working with three servers: two Hyper-V hosts and the file share. Since SMB is not an option anymore, I will probably end up turning that server into a Hyper-V host as well. In the future, we plan to add more Hyper-V hosts to the cluster as we accumulate more hardware. We obviously want to take advantage of high availability.
As I can't store or delegate any credentials to access the SMB share on a separate server, I need to find other storage solutions and compare the benefits/drawbacks and find what will realistically work for our scenario. Which are some that I can use without needing to store/delegate credentials?