Windows Server Failover Cluster Tahniques

We have Two Servers Ready to be Deploy the SQL 2012; Need to make Cluster of These two nodes.
We have Servers with 900 GB Unallocated local Disk Space in each server.
We Don't have any kind of Shared Storage.
My Questions are:
- how to make Qourum?
- How to Use these Two Disks on each server so that Data will be Replicated?
- After Making the Cluster, how to Install the SQL server?

Hi,
The shared storage is necessary for the failover cluster, if you don’t have the share storage you can’t build the failover cluster. The two node local disk space can’t be
used as the CSV storage.
More information:
Understanding Cluster Shared Volumes in a Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759255.aspx
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