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Hi,
Simple answer is yes. It's just the matter of visibility of the disks on the virtual servers. You need to configure the disks appropriately so that some of them are accessible from both nodes e.g. OCR or Voting disks and some are local, but many of the answers depend on the setup that you are going to choose.
Regards,
Jarek

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