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So, taking into account that we'll need:
An Active Directory Domain
2-nodes (which means my 2 servers in the cluster) joined to said domain
A witness
We can easily create a 3-server setup:
1 server to be DC and witness
2 servers who are our 2 converged nodes.
As you can see in my crude drawing below:
My physical Windows 10 host
My 3 servers: 2 nodes and my witness being run virtually on my Windows 10 host
A virtualised server who's running on HC Node 1, with HC Node 2 actually being in cluster as a failover/hot-standby for computational power,storage and networking.
So let's head over to server number 1: the DC.
Hint: Make sure all integration services are enabled so you can easily copy paste between host and your VMs