You can share the resources across Datastores (aka SANs) but as you have mentioned there is a slight management overhead. Don't forget storage VMotion which can come in handy here, you can move disks between the two without downtime. But remember it does place a performance hit so you probably want to schedule it for non-peak periods.

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