I have deployed two identical ESXi 5.1 hosts (Dell PowerEdge r720xd servers) each possessing 5.46 TB of direct-attached storage. They are both currently registered to our vCenter 5.1 Server and participate in an HA cluster. Their respective datastores are also members of a datastore cluster.
Each host is connected to its own datastore, but not to the other host's datastore. This effectively disables most HA/SDRS features, and the host connection status for each datastore is flagged with a warning for the missing connections. We desire VM migrations and load balancing between the two hosts and datastores to be as seamless and transparent as possible.
My question is simple: what is the most practical and effective way to establish the connections required to achieve a fully-connected state for both hosts and datastores?