Cisco HyperFlex M5 Edge 3 nodes without Fabric Interconnects, Hyper-V

[proudeagle622]

Have (3) HX220SX M5 Edge servers with Cisco 12G Modular SAS HBA RAID controllers and Nexus 9K switches.  Trying to install and run Hyperflex using Windows Server 2019 and Hyper-V but it appears that only vmWare installations can be done without Fabric Interconnects.  With vmWare I would need to purchase a vCenter license whereas I already have Windows Server 2019 licenses I can use.  Have googled extensively but cannot find any clear answers.  Using UCS is new to me so trying to learn the best I can.

1) Is this possible?

2) Would I need to first upgrade the RAID controllers to a "Cisco 12G Modular RAID Controller with 2-GB cache" controller to first create the RAID then install Windows Server 2019 Datacenter to hyperconverge the servers?

[Kirk J]

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/hyperconverged_systems/HyperFlex_HX_DataPlatformSoftware/HX_Hyper-V_Installation_Guide/5-0/b-hx-installation-guide-for-microsoft-hyper-v-5-0/m-preinstallation-checklist.html#id_126015 

Hyper-V is only supported on properly configured M5 nodes, connected to UCSM/FIs

HX edge servers (without FIs) are supported with ESXi.

Thanks,

Kirk...