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The only way to accomplish this is with SAN or vSAN.
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The only way to accomplish this is with SAN or vSAN.

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Okay so vSAN is an option? &nbsp;That seems like it would fit my situation. &nbsp;Or am I missing a piece?
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Okay so vSAN is an option?  That seems like it would fit my situation.  Or am I missing a piece?

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Answer no!<br />
But do you know what VMware HA does?<br />
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you could usen vSAN but its recommended you have 4 hosts<br />
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and it is a licensed produt<br />
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you could replicate VMs from host a to host b
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Answer no!
But do you know what VMware HA does?

you could usen vSAN but its recommended you have 4 hosts

and it is a licensed produt

you could replicate VMs from host a to host b

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Would something like this work? &nbsp;NETGEAR ReadyNAS 316<br />
It only has two gigabyte nic ports. &nbsp;So I would have to do one to each server....
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Would something like this work?  NETGEAR ReadyNAS 316
It only has two gigabyte nic ports.  So I would have to do one to each server....

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I have two dell servers with 3TB 10K SAS drives total in a RAID 6. &nbsp;I was wondering if its possible to use ESXi between both servers in an HA setup (without a SAN present).
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I have two dell servers with 3TB 10K SAS drives total in a RAID 6.  I was wondering if its possible to use ESXi between both servers in an HA setup (without a SAN present).

ESXi HA non SAN

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