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FenasiKerim
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Thanks for your answers, really appreciated.

My goal is to test vMotion by moving a running virtual machine from one physical ESXi host (e.g. A) to another (e.g. B) and capture the traffic generated in the network.

I initially started with two ESXi hosts (A and B) and a separate Windows server with vCenter installed. I installed virtual machines on A and B and tried vMotion only to find that the VMs were supposed to reside on a shared datastore that can be seen by both A and B with read/write access for vMotion to work. This brought the machine C into the picture, hoping a simple ESXi installation could provide that 'shared datastore' requirement. (My thinking was ESXi provides MVFS and could be used to expose machine C's harddisk as a shared datastore - remind you I'm completely new to this!) I couldn't manage (not sure if it even makes sense) to use C as my shared datastore, hence my question before I grabbed a NAS which looks like a viable solution.

I'm in the process of installing FreeNAS on machine C at the moment as Paul suggested. I was just hoping to get away with a simple ESXi installation for the shared datastore.

I'm sure I lack the right VMware terminology to better explain it but what I'm trying to come up is a test rig to test vMotion with a total of 4 physical PCs: 2 ESXi hosts running various VMs, 1 'shared storage' machine that can be seen by the 2 ESXi hosts and 1 Windows PC runnig the VCenter.

Thanks for your kind responses, really helps me out. I'll let you know how the FreeNAS adventure goes.

Thanks,

J

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