Here is my situation...

I have 3 hosts connected to a SAN running ESXi 4.1.  2 of them are somewhat low-powered (refresh soon) and one is brand new and smoking fast.  I have all 3 in a HA cluster, with a 1 host failure monitor.

The issue is that the new host cannot come close to running the number of VMs it is capable of, because vCenter is preventing me from booting any more, since they will not survive a failure of the new host.  However, I want to make a large chunk of the new host's power reserved for non-HA servers.

I thought to make another cluster, add that host to it without HA enabled, and boot there, but vCenter allows a host to only be in one cluster, it seems.

Numbers:

1 cluster with 3 esxi 4.1 hosts with HA enabled.

2 Hosts are 4-core, 12GB servers

1 Host is 12-core, 32GB server.

I have 10 VMs that total 24GB of memory usage.  If I try to boot another, it limits me with "Insufficient Resources to satisfy configured failover level for HA."

I want 4 more VMs on the bigger host, but not have them work with HA, so if the server fails, those VMs are offline.  I want them excluded from the HA failover calculations.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!