Data Collection Options and VM Files Summary
If this report is accessed via a drilldown from another report, the values shown represent the type of data collection that was configured to collect this data.
A Virtualization Manager data collection policy can be configured to gather data as follows:
Inventory (default option): Collect only the data associated with the VMs in the inventory.
Collect all files in datastore: Perform a full scan of the datastore to discover files that are resident on the datastore, but not associated with a VM in the inventory. This option finds files that may be invisible to VMware, but that are consuming space on the datastore.
When the Inventory option is configured in the data collector policy, it has the following impact on fields shown in this report:
The Last Modified date will be null.
Total # Files collected usually will be less than the all files collection.
When the Collect all files in datastore option is configured in the data collector policy, it has the following impact on fields shown in this report:
The Last Modified date will be missing for files not found in the datastore scan.