Datastores page in the vSphere Infrastructure view


A vSphere datastore is a logical container that holds the virtual machine files and other files necessary for virtual machine operations. The Datastores page in the vSphere Infrastructure view shows datastore capacity information to help implement datastore allocation policies, reports the total and available capacity, and helps you decide on the number of VMs that can be added to the datastore, based on the spare capacity available. The spare capacity calculations take into account thin and thick provisioned VMs.

To access the page, in the Views tab navigation pane, click Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Infrastructure, and in the vSphere Infrastructure page, click the Datastores tab.

Datastore metrics

Metrics per datastore are displayed in a tabular format. By default, the table is sorted on the number of additional datastores that can be added to the cluster on the basis of their capacity. 

Each row corresponds to a datastore and provides an overview of its capacity with the help of the following metrics:


Detailed information about a specific vSphere datastore

To view the details page for a specific vSphere datastore, click its (hyper-linked) name under the Datastore column. You can use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific datastore cluster. 

For more information, see Managing-charts-and-tables-in-Views and Filtering-data-displayed-in-Views.

The Datastore details page displays information under the following sections or panels:

Section or Panel

Description

Summary page

A quick graphical summary of the datastore space and capacity utilization, and read/write rate and latency details. At the bottom of the chart is a link that takes you to the corresponding Data Explorer view.

The data displayed in Data Explorer view charts is based on the time filter that is applied to the primary view in this tab. You can change the time period in the Data Explorer view for the selected resource, to view charts over a different time resolution.

Configuration Details page

Configuration information about the datastore.

Associated Systems page

Name and system type details for all vSphere systems, such as clusters, hosts, VMs, that are associated with the selected datastore.

Recommendations panel

All available recommendations for the datastore. For more information, see Recommendations-page-in-the-vSphere-Infrastructure-view.

Tags panel

List of tags that are associated with the cluster. You can assign or remove tags by using the Edit Tags option from the Tags action menu.

 

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