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  • 1.  How to setup to share local storage

    Posted Sep 11, 2020 12:50 AM

    We have two enclosures with Esxi installed.

    They are Esxi-A and Esxi-B

    Since Esxi-A has more storage capacity, we would like to store all the virtual OS images on Esxi-A's local storage.

    So, could you please tell me how to set up Esxi-B to access Esxi-A's local storage from Esxi-B?

    Best Regards,



  • 2.  RE: How to setup to share local storage
    Best Answer

    Posted Sep 11, 2020 01:08 AM

    That's not possible in the sense that you seek. When using storage local to an ESXi host, only that host may access it unless other "layers" are used.



  • 3.  RE: How to setup to share local storage

    Posted Sep 11, 2020 03:08 AM

    Hey, hope you are doing fine

    You can't share local storage across esxi hosts.

    Please check this:

    https://cloudian.com/guides/vmware-storage/vmware-storage/

    Shared Storage



  • 4.  RE: How to setup to share local storage

    Posted Sep 11, 2020 06:25 AM

    You can pool local storage with solutions such as vSAN, but that has some very specific requirements In terms of hosts, controllers, disks, networking....

    vSAN 2 Node Guide | VMware