Datastore Detail
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Table: Datastore Detail
Column name | Description |
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Name |
Name of the datastore. |
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Cluster Name |
The name of the cluster to which the datastore belongs. |
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Type |
Datastore type: a specific NFS file system or NAS. |
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Server |
This field is related to Datastore type and will be populated only when the type is NAS. |
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Folder |
The VM folder in which this Datastore is located. This field is related to Datastore type and will be populated only when the type is NAS. |
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Multiple Host Access |
Indicates if this datastore can be shared by multiple hosts: Yes or No. |
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Last Updated |
Timestamp of the last write access. |
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VMDK Max File Size |
The capacity of a virtual disk from the point of view of a virtual machine. |
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# VMs |
This number links to the VM Summary report, listing the VMs associated with this Datastore. |
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# Extents |
The number of extents that were added to expand the datastore (up to 32 physical storage extents). |
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# Disks |
The number of physical disks associated with the datastore. |
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# Arrays |
The number of arrays from which this datastore gets physical storage links to Array Capacity & Utilization. |
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VMDK Used |
The sum of all virtual disks - VMDK (.vmdk files). This sum does not include snapshot metadata files, however, other outdated snapshot data may be in vmdk files. For this reason, VMDK Used may exceed VM Disk Capacity, the amount that was configured when the VM was created. |
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Total VM Used |
Size of the virtual machine, which includes VMDK files, log files, and snapshots; the sum of all the files taking up storage by this VM. This value links to the VM Files Summary report, which lists the usage details. For details about data collection options that impact these values refer to the following report. |
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Is Thin |
Indicates whether or not the datastore supports thin provisioning on a per file basis. When thin provisioning is used, backing storage is lazily allocated. This is supported by VMFS3. VMFS2 always allocates storage eagerly. Thus, this value is false for VMFS2. Most NAS systems always use thin provisioning. They do not support configuring this on a per file basis, so for NAS systems this value is also false. |
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Total Capacity |
Total capacity of this Datastore. |
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Free Capacity |
Available capacity in this Datastore |
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Used Capacity |
Amount of this Datastore's capacity already in use |
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Capacity Usage |
Mouse over this thermometer to view the usage percentage |
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VMDK Allocated |
This is the current allocated size of all VMDKs in the datastore. |
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VM Not In Inventory |
Indicates VMs that are not currently in the inventory, but are taking up space in the Datastore. These are VMs that are not visible in VMware vCenter. Click this link to view the VM Files Summary. This value will be zero if data collection is configured to collect data from only datastores associated with VMs in the inventory. For details about data collection options that impact these values, refer to the following report. |
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Over Provisioned |
Indicates what percentage is over-provisioned. This helps you in evaluating possible virtual environment expansions. |