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