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julienrcooper
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‎01-23-2013 04:15 PM

Presenting a datastore to a Host

How do I present a datastore on a Host that is available to another Host on the same datacenter?

My vCenter is running ESXi 4.1.  I have one datacenter with two hosts.  One of the hosts has a datastore available to it which I want available to the other host.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,  Julien

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RvdNieuwendijk
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‎01-24-2013 12:12 AM

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schepp
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‎01-24-2013 12:15 AM

That depends on how your datastore is connected to the host. FC/iSCSI/NFS?

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aravinds3107
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‎01-24-2013 02:29 AM

Provide more details on what type of storage connection are you using for the first esxi host

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zXi_Gamer
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‎01-24-2013 05:43 AM

If you are talking about sharing HostA's local datastore [datastore1] with HostB's [datastore2], then it might not be possible at least in 4.X release. From 5.0, you can have Xvmotion, so that the VMs are migrated between different hosts of no shared storage.

Again, if you are talking about NAS or FC or iSCSI, then it would be quite the easy method.

julienrcooper
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‎02-04-2013 04:01 PM

Thanks for your response.

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