Moving ESXi hosts between vCenters, with Datastores presented that are part of a storage cluster.

Hi all,

Probably an easy question, but I wanted to get some confirmation.

I have vCenter01 and vCenter02

esx01 is managed in vCenter01 and has a datastore presented to it (datastore01) which is part of a storage cluster (SC01)

If I wish to migrate this host between vCenters, can I simply;

1. Place esx01 into maintenance mode 2. Remove from inventory, leaving datastore01 presented to it. 3. Add host in vCenter02 4. Add esx01 to a new target cluster

I'm a little confused as to what happens to the relationship between datastore01 and it's storage cluster in vcenter01.

Does it remain in the storage cluster in vCenter01?

If so, what happens when I add the host into vCenter02? It has no previous knowledge of SC01.

If the datastore is presented in vCenter02, do we now risk a situation where the same datastore is being managed differently by two different vCenters?