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I'm considering creating a NVMe 'all flash' SAN for a project I'm working on. I will be building a 3 node ESXi cluster to service a group of Users working with large graphics intense workloads. I would like to use high speed NVMe SSD storage, shared amongst the cluster nodes, as it would be cost prohibitive to use it as local storage on all 3 nodes. Can I load a server with NVMe storage and using vSAN either: a) Have it be an ESXi host, hosting some VM's and sharing it's fast storage with the 2 other ESXi hosts?                                                                                                     b) Have it be a dedicated SAN, not hosting any VM's and sharing it's fast storage with 3 ESXi hosts?

We have a need at my workplace for 4 to 6 users to perform some graphics intensive work, but do it from a standard midrange laptops running Windows 7. Some people here are thinking of using Horizon View for this purpose. That seems to me like a lot of cost and complexity for a handful of users. Is it possible to just slap a decent graphics card in an HP DL360, install ESXi 6.5 and have 4 to 6 guest VM's leverage the graphics card in the ESXi host? I'm open to any and all suggestions. Thanks.

We have an ESXi 5.5 cluster with vCenter 5.5 for our lab. We need to configure it so that another group in my department can share our lab for their testing. Ideally, we would like it configured so that they can't see/use our stuff and vice-versa. I guess this would be a multi-tenant config? I'm looking for information on how to achieve this in the easiest least complex way.