FenasiKerim
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Shared storage on ESXi host

Hello,

I'm having a bit of a problem configuring shared storage for vMotion and I'd appreciate any help you can provide.

I'm trying to have the following config:

  • 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts (e.g. A and B) that'll run VMs.

  • 1 ESXi 4.1 host (e.g. C) as shared datastore to keep the VM configs.

  • 1 Windows Server 2008 server running vCenter.

Ultimately I'd like to be able to create a shared datastore on C that both A and B can read/write to so I can perform vMotion between A and B.

Is it possible to implement this config with a regular ESXi host running on C? At the moment all the ESXi hosts are bare bone PCs with IDE drives. In other words, I wonder if I can convert a regular ESXi server running on a regular PC to a shared storage host or do I need a dedicated NAS in place of C for that?

Ultimately I would like to initiate vMotion between two ESXi hosts (i.e. A and B) and keep the configuration files on a separate host, preferably another plain ESXi host with a regular IDE drive.

I'm very new to all this so I'd appreciate any pointers.

Regards,

J

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