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vmware uses locking at vmdk level. you can even share iscsi LUN betwwen two (provided iscsi server implements locking at good speed)
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vmware uses locking at vmdk level. you can even share iscsi LUN betwwen two (provided iscsi server implements locking at good speed)

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Technically you can with shared storage but it is not a supported VMware configuration.<br />
Also Storage DRS won't work with this configuration. &nbsp;Having had issues with this in the past I strongly recommend you don't do this.
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Technically you can with shared storage but it is not a supported VMware configuration.
Also Storage DRS won't work with this configuration.  Having had issues with this in the past I strongly recommend you don't do this.

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Hi, <br />
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I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if its possible to attach 2 different ESXi hosts to the same datastore if they are managed by different VC's <br />
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regards
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Hi, 

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if its possible to attach 2 different ESXi hosts to the same datastore if they are managed by different VC's 

regards

ESX servers sharing Datastore with different Vcentres

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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