Removing datastores from a datastore cluster

[TheVMinator]

What issues / caveats are there if you have a single datastore that is not part of a datastore cluter, when all other datastores are part of the cluster?  I have one datastore that needs to be dedicated to a single large VM.  I don't want SDRS to move that VM or to have another VM moved to this datastore.  Are there issues if a single datastore lives outside of the datastore cluster?

(Assume there is only one compute cluster involved)

Thanks!

[VirtuallyMikeB]

When using datastore clusters and Storage DRS, I find it useful to also use storage profiles.  When you do this, you can ensure VMs meant to stay on certain datastores do.  The corollary is that VMs that need to stay off of certain datastores, do as well.  Make one storage profile for the unique VM and another for those VMs that share a datastore cluster.

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[Gav0]

I am not aware of any issues, you just wont have the benefits of using Datastore Cluster features such as SDRS.  We have multiple Datastore Clusters - for different disk type/speed (10K FC, 15K FC, 10K SAS etc).

Also consider if you have a VMFS Datastore Cluster and then introduce an NFS Datastore - this would have to be a 'stand-alone' Datastore as a mixed cluster is not supported (of course if you had 2 or more you could make an NFS Datastore Cluster)

[akkayyakapisett]

I would recommend to use SDRS with the specific VM settings to manual.

Venkat

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[GaneshNetworks]

I don't want SDRS to move that VM or to have another VM moved to this datastore.

Remove the datastore from SDRS

Are there issues if a single datastore lives outside of the datastore cluster?

No Issues. You won't get the benefits of SDRS.