I haven't tried it, but apparently you can vMotion VMs without having shared storage starting with 5.1:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmotion-without-shared-storage-requirement-does-it-have-a-name.html -Andy On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:22 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank Dmitri, > > I'm getting a bit confused because the VM Working Directory Path pointing > to the local SSD which the other server knows nothing about. I'm currently > using the VMware Vcenter host profile will I need to change that and use > the esxi local storage profile? Seems like I'm going to need two virtual > hosts using the esxi local storage policy? > > > David DeMizio > *Academic Systems Coordinator* > Office of Information Technology > New College of Florida > Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 > www.ncf.edu > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi David >> >> >> I think it should work fine with local SSD storage on ESXi hosts. You >> still may want to use a shared NFS storage for your images (Virtual Disk >> Path), but you can point VM Working Directory Path to local SSD storage. >> >> -- >> Thank you, >> >> Dmitri Chebotarov >> VCL Sys Eng, Engineering & Architectural >> Support, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging >> 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 >> Phone: (703) 993-6175 | Fax: (703) 993-3404 >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* David DeMizio <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 10:08 AM >> *To:* user >> *Subject:* Local storage >> >> >> Hello, >> >> We have two servers with local Solid state storage in both of them that >> I would like to start testing with VCL. Currently, I am using vsphere 5.5 >> with the vcl vmware module to provision my nodes by using a SAN. Of course >> if I plan to test VCL just using the local SSD drives than I will lose the >> ability of vmotion, at least I think I will because each server will not >> have access to the other servers SSDs. Can I still use the vmware module if >> I go this route? Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thank you. >> >> -Dave >> > >
