VDS vDS one or two?

I am using vCenter 5.5.  I have two groups, each of 4 guests.  Each host has dual 10 GB NIC.  The pair of network adapters on each host is connected to a standard vSwitch using Cisco Etherchannel and Hash IP load balancing.  VLAN Trunking is used for any VLAN on the campus network is accessible by every standard vSwich.  I also iSCSI Setup on each host using the VMkernel port bindings, each cluster has dedicated iSCSI storage.  The standard vSwitch on each host has port groups for only the VLANS that each cluster required for virtual machines running on that cluster.  The clusters are among the same configuration of VLAN on the vSwitch hosts.  My ports to VLANs groups use a common naming format, EX VL172s (172 VLAN for standard switch) or VL196d (196 VLAN for switch distributed).  I created a vDS and converted to Clutser #2 to use this vDS.  I've migrated the existing cards and groups of ports VMs for Cluster #2 to the SVD.

Now to the question in the title.  Should I use this one vDS for Cluster #1 or should I create a new vDS for Cluster #1.  If I use the same vDS for Cluster #1 I'll have a few groups of ports (VLAN) that will not be used.  If I create a new vDS for Cluster #1 I'll have to create groups of ports for some of the same VLAN but with different names (since both groups of port, same on different vDS, cannot have the same name).

Excellent. We will transform 'I would like vMotion some virtual machines between clusters"in a requirement and change the design of a single VDS.

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