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  3. Section XVIII. Inventory reports and operations
  4. VM Datastore Overview
  5. VM Datastore Group Overview

VM Datastore Group Overview

The datastore is the container for the VMs and their configuration files, virtual disks, and other files, such as the ISO files that are used for installing a virtual machine. A datastore provides the virtual storage resources via mapping to physical storage on DAS SCSI, FC SAN arrays, iSCSI, or NAS drives. The datastore is the storage provisioning source for one or more VMs on one or more hosts.

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