DataStore on LUN

[ChrisLopes]

Hi,

If I have a LUN of 300 GB, Can I create two datatore within one LUN.

Am I right to say that in order for vmotion 3.03 to work, both must be in the same Datastore?

Thanks

[weinstein5]

Best pracrice is to create a single VMFS datastore per LUN - so I would not reommend what you want to do -

for vmotion to work it actually is that both ESX hosts must be able see the datastore(s) containg the VM and its virtual disks - I am not sure what you mean by "both must be in the same datastore"

[adolopo · Accepted solution]

As long as both (or all) HOSTS had access to the LUN(s), you'll be able to vmotion. I could envision a scenario where you'd want to isolate I/O with 2 datastores, but not sure if you'd want to implement the configuration you want to impleement.