PaulusG
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Hello and welcome to the forums

I do not know the hardware for ESXi host A and B.

But in a scenario that you want iSCSI storage and vMotion,

at least you need 2 extra NICs per ESXi host (VMotion requires Gigabit)

If you want host C for shared data storage,

- you can go for a VM that does the job (worst scenario)

- Make it a dedicated iSCSI box with OpenFiler (http://www.openfiler.com/) or FreeNAS (http://freenas.org/downloads) (better)

And do some additional reading on this forum about using thes products.

- Buy a seperate Storage box (best)

If BOX C has an IDE drive, performance is not that good

I do not know if you are gooing to run a production environment or just a lab.

In case of production, I would recommend to check the Compatibility, in case of support issues

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?q=vmware%20compatibility%20list&aq=0&aqi=g1...

Paul Grevink

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