Hello all. I'm in the process of separating a large cluster containing Development, Test and Production VMs into two clusters - one for Development and the other for Test & Production. My plan was to do this in phases - phase 1 would be to separate the hosts. We have several old hosts in our current cluster that will be pulled out and put into a new Dev-only cluster. I was planning to take 2 hosts out of the existing cluster, add them to the new cluster, re-attach them to the existing dvSwitch & storage and then live vMotion a handful of Dev servers over with no downtime. I would then move the remaining hosts slated for the Dev cluster over one at a time along with a handful of VMs.
My question is, is it a supported configuration to have a single Datastore Cluster attached to two Host Clusters with DRS and HA enabled? Is there a supported process for accomplishing this? Are there any limitations or caveats that I should be aware of?
According to this blog post, it seems very do-able: Connecting multiple DRS clusters to a single Storage DRS datastore cluster. - frankdenneman.nl
Thanks in advance.