Managing ESX hosts as part of seperate VMFS clusters

[raining]

Hi Guys,

I am interested in managing two ESX servers by keeping them in seperate VMFS clusters, but using the same LUN. Is this possible? Can anyone suggest how to do that?

I have tried managing the 2 ESX servers using seperate Virtual Center Servers, but looks like they still become part of the same VMFS. Why is this happening?

Thanks for your help.

[uslacker99]

You could create separate vmfs volumes on one LUN, but if it's visible to the host, it will see it. It's probably not a good idea. The gui doesn't allow you to do this - you'll have to do it with fdisk.

[raining]

Does this mean that even if I have two seperate VMFS volumes on one ESX server, they would still become part of a single VMFS cluster? The reason I am asking this is because I have three ESX servers - ESX1, ESX2 and ESX3. I am sharing a volume between ESX1 and ESX2; and another volume between ESX2 and ESX3. So, is there a way to ensure that there is one VMFS cluster between ESX1 and ESX2; and another between ESX2 and ESX3?

Thanks.