With your DAS you're missing out on the vmotion feature that a vmware product can offer. Leave the copy on write snapshots and bussiness continuance LUNs do the hard work for you with scripting of your backups.
Having a vmotion feature also helps with load changes and rebalancing with minimal interaction on your part. You can also make use of pools and shares along with storage IO controls to help with varying loads where you need to prioritize your VMs into tiers, etc. The true hardware community and manageability is really being shown with Ciscos UCS. Pair it into a Vblock with the Acadia VCE config and you can have platform for allocating and reallocating various hardware for different needs. If a piece of hardware dies, everything is handled with profiles so your HBA WWNs and NIC MACs are now all virtualized so changing hardware in a server is easily done once a profile is reapplied to another server. All your LUNs show up and you're connected to the correct network(s).
Having a vmotion feature also helps with load changes and rebalancing with minimal interaction on your part. You can also make use of pools and shares along with storage IO controls to help with varying loads where you need to prioritize your VMs into tiers, etc. The true hardware community and manageability is really being shown with Ciscos UCS. Pair it into a Vblock with the Acadia VCE config and you can have platform for allocating and reallocating various hardware for different needs. If a piece of hardware dies, everything is handled with profiles so your HBA WWNs and NIC MACs are now all virtualized so changing hardware in a server is easily done once a profile is reapplied to another server. All your LUNs show up and you're connected to the correct network(s).