Thank you for the reply. This is what I thought (my middle chart). Where two LUNs are kept in synchronous replication. Each host is linked to datastore hosted on the LUN like in the document you presented. (Btw, this is the same document that I read earlier) However, on pages 25 - 34, titled Creatin...

The last time I set up vCenter HA in production was in a Essentials Plus scenario with a Dell Equallogic SAN. Each VM (not many) were set up as their own LUN to allow automated snapshots in the SAN itself. I never realized that there was a 2 datastore requirement because there were about 8 datastore...

Thank you for the quick reply. I think I have a better understanding now. Please correct me if I am wrong in assuming that this is due to the NTFS file system not allowing for concurrent sessions from two separate hosts using the same iSCSI LUN. If I were to ever switch to Hyper-V (which I explored ...

I currently have a single host hyper-converged ESXi for non production, testing use (no HA). An HBA adapter is passed to the StarWind guest - which uses MS Storage Spaces to provide a 4 column mirror. I am now looking to expand this. First by breaking down the MS Storage space mirror as it won't be ...