2 ESX host and shared SAN storage

[Pes1964]

Hello

1.We have 2 ESX hosts. We assign same  LUN  ( shared LUN) to both hosts 

2.We will  create datastore on one node only. we will create  vm.

3.Later on we will acquire vcenter license and and install vcentre and create 2 node cluster.

4.Then we can use same datastore  and VM in new cluster 

Is it possible?

[Jonathan77]

You can do that no issue.

The only thing is that you will need to manually unregister / register VMs from the datastore on the esxi host if you want to move the VM to the other host, and things like vMotion etc. won't be available.

But VMFS is a cluster file system, doesn't need vCenter to works. Once the LUN is formatted as VMFS, the created datastore would be visible from both hosts.

Jonathan P.

[Pes1964]

Thank you very good answer. I do not have Kudos to give unfortunately .