sharing between ESXi3.5 and ESX4 vmfs volume

Is it possible to share a LUN with a vmfs between ESXi3.5 and ESX4 servers?

IM upgrading to ESX4 and wanted to know if I can share the volume between the old and new guests and migrate virtual machines gradually. I read that the vmfs specification has not changed between 3.5 and 4, it should be possible to share beween 3.5 and 4.

Is it possible?, supported?, not recommended?

Hello

I assume you mean shared storage?

To answer your question. Yes that is supported and this is the route that most of the people.

Storage is compatible.

As soon as you upgrade virtual hardware of your virtual machine it can be started from a vSphere host.

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