Can HA work without shared storage?
Per the vSphere Availability manual it cannot. However the VMware global partner that sold me on VMware as a solution said that shared storage is not required for HA.
This is the same guy that told me that I wouldn't need to purchase Windows Server licenses because it was all included in the package (vSphere Essentials Plus). Now I have no Windows licenses, no shared storage and a customer that is not going to be happy that we didn't include those costs in the quote for this project.