Hi Cyberfed27,
It is exactly as you have already stated, a cluster needs shared storage (like FC, iSCSI or NFS).
If you use C to provide storage, there is no need to have C in the same cluster.
What do you exactly mean by "shared datastore to keep the VM configs"?
A VM config file, the *.vmx file is just a small file. Most important are the disk files,
that contain the actual data
Do you have some more info about your environment?
Paul Grevink
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