Is it necessary to create tiny datastores just for the purpose of cluster heartbeats or is it perfectly fine to use the normal datastores that house VMs?
We have clusters of 3-4 hosts and 4-8 FC SAN datastores (and each host can access each datastore). The previous admins created pairs of 1.25GB datastores specifically to use for cluster heartbeats, on each cluster, similar to a quorum disk. This works fine but we're in the process of overhauling our environment and I thought it would be a perfect time to get rid of those tiny datastores and just use the standard VM datastores for the cluster heatbeats (and let vSphere choose which ones to use).
