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Vmware vCenter datastores and hosts design

I am working on a new vCenter environment with 6 hosts and a Cluseted NAS storage (24 TBs) with a 20Gig backplane.  This storage will only be used for VMs.

My basic design is to have 3 datastores, each datastore dedicated to a pair of clustered hosts. As we add on more hosts in the future they will be add to one of the 3 host clusters.

Host 1 & 2
Datastore 1
VMs - Windows Applications Servers (File Servers, Terminal Servers, etc.)

Host 3 & 4
Datastore 2
VMs - Windows Servers (DC, DNS, etc)

Host 5 & 6
Datastore 3
VMs - Windows SQL Servers

I would like some best practice advice or recommendations on designing the datastores with the current hosts.  Should I create two datastores per host cluster or will one be sufficient. Is there anything I need to consider regarding vMotion or host cluster design?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
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Thank you! I see I was definitely planning a short sighted VMware infrastructure. Great suggestions!