Share Resources between 2 ESX 4.0 Hosts without a shared storage

[FedeVMW]

Hello Guys,

I have the following question I would like to clarify.

Imagine we have 2 ESX 4.0 hosts with most functional license acquired (DRS, HA, VMotion, etc)

Both physical servers are identical. Don´t have access to any kind of shared storage (no SAN, no iSCSI, no NAS, etc)

In host #1 I installed all VMs using local storage.

Is it posible to use the resources of host #2 (memory and CPU) to give more power to host #1.

My doubt is if it is posible to have a VMs installed in local HD in host #1 and using RAM or/and CPU from Host #2.

Just make a cluster between both hosts to empower the resources of host #1 (not to use DRS or Vmotion features)

Let me know if I am explaining in a correct way or not.

Hope someone can clarify this to me.

Thanks in advance

[Jain · Accepted solution]

It is not possible, Even if you have shared storage.

There is no possiblity that allows you to join CPU and Memory resources from 2 diffrent hosts.

Cheers,

~ Jain

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[karavinds1]

This is not possible even on a shared storage. You can take advantage of using VMotion, HA and DRS when used with a shared storage, otherwise there is nothing that is published/documented that says about the use of shared hardware resources of different hosts.

Regards,

Aravind K

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[AndreTheGiant]

Note that system virtualization is a way to partion your system in several sub-resources.

Is not an aggregation solution (on a single VM).

What you mean is a HCP cluster (for example) that can aggregate the computing power of different nodes.

Andre