Hi there,

Yes you are correct that you can create a new cluster and add the ESXi 6.0 hosts to it. You can assign permissions to Folders, DataCenters and Clusters so no problems with limiting access to the other team so they only see the cluster you want them to even under the same DataCenter.

What I meant in regards to vCenter is that an ESXi host can only be connected to 1 vCenter at a time. If the hosts are connected (managed) by another vCenter you will be told when you try to connect them to the new vCenter. If you proceed then they will be disconnected from the other and joined to this one. No issue with this howver I would let the other team know that’s what has happened otherwise they will see the hosts as disconnected and might reconnect them.

The rest is correct. In this case they should be connected to the same vCenter and the you can migrate them across non-shared storage. One other thing to bear in mind - the processors between the two clusters will need to be the same to do a live migration, I.e. Without taking an outage to the VM. If they are different then the migration will need to occur with the VMs powered off.

Kind regards.