Hyper-V Advice Needed

Caporegime
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Hoping someone can help me with this one, currently I look after a fairly large site, split over 3 locations, each location is networked via leased line to the central location.

Two of them have onsite servers running SBS 2011, support will be ending for this soon, so I'm looking into options, I would like to have a single server solution at the main site, but split AD/Fileserver and the Exchange server over 2 VMs, I would also like some resilience in the event of hardware failure, I understand this is possible with clustering, but I guess you really need a SAN for this to work effectively (if at all).

Without a SAN, the AD Replication and Fileserver could be easily mirrored using DFSR, I'm not sure on the exchange side of things, would MRS work or would I need to use DAG?
 
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Do I need a witness server for a DAG to work? There are only going to be 2 hyper-v machines, no instances will be on bare metal so if the machine with the witness dies, what would happen?
 
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