Highly Available Management Servers in SCVMM 2012

Dear All,
I need to build Highly Available Management Servers (2) (SCVMM 2012) for my environment. I am interested in following things:
1. What are my options. I have done little reading and seek confirmation that without building a windows failover cluster, one is not able to build HA SCVMM Management Servers? Am I correct in understanding this? If so, do I need
a shared disk as well to create a cluster first and then install Management Servers?
2. What service accounts or groups are need during the configuration and what would be their permissions on respective servers such as Hyper-V Hosts and in Active Directory?
3. Do we really need to create a container in Active Directory for an HA SCVMM scenario?
4. Can HA solution be implemented without the WFC?
5. Would appreciate, if you could share some of the links to blogs/articles about step by step instructions to it.
Thanks in advance.

easy. create 2 node cluster-nested virtual or physical, no matter. if virtual, set affinity (rather lack of to keep them on separate nodes-also build a sql cluster as well and also keep them on separate nodes)follow the articles.
I found no less than 10 step by steps when searching for when I built the HA SCVMM / SQL environment for my company.
MS article and third party, as you can see they are pretty straight forward to follow. Best of luck.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610678.aspx
http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2013/08/how-to-install-a-highly-available-scvmm-management-server/
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Need your expertise regarding hyper-v high availability. We setup 2 hyper-v 2012 host in our infra for our domain consolidation project. Unfortunately, we don't have hardware storage that is said to be a requirement that we can use to create a failover cluster
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Refer the below screen shot
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Description : The Microsoft Operations Manager Expression filter Module failed to query the delivered item, item was dropped.
Property Expression: Reachability/State
Error : 0XC00EE22
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