Datastore Details

Datastore Information

Datastore Applicable
Information Datastore Type Description

Name VMFS Editable name that you assign to a datastore

NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Type VMFS File system that the datastore uses

NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Device VMFS Information about underlying storage, such as a storage

Backing device on which the datastore is deployed (VMFS),
NFS
server and folder (NFS), or disk groups (vSAN)
vSAN

Protocol Virtual Volumes Information about corresponding protocol endpoints

Endpoints

Extents VMFS Individual extents that the datastore spans and their
capacity

Drive Type VMFS Type of the underlying storage device, such as a flash
drive or a regular HHD drive

Capacity VMFS Includes total capacity, provisioned space, and free

space
Datastore Information

Datastore Applicable
Information Datastore Type Description

NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Mount Point VMFS A path to the datastore in the /vmfs/volumes/ directory

of the host
NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Capability VMFS Information about storage data services that the

Sets underlying storage entity provides (you cannot modify
Note:
them)
A multi-extent VMFS
datastore assumes
capabilities of only
one of its extents.

NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Storage I/O VMFS Information on whether cluster-wide storage I/O

Control prioritization is enabled
NFS

Hardware VMFS Information on whether the underlying storage entity

Acceleration supports hardware acceleration. The status can be
NFS
Supported, Not Supported, or Unknown
vSAN
Note:
Datastore Information

Datastore Applicable
Information Datastore Type Description

Virtual Volumes NFS 4.1 does not support Hardware Acceleration

Tags VMFS Datastore capabilities that you define and associate with
datastores in a form of tags
NFS

vSAN

Virtual Volumes

Connectivity VMFS Hosts where the datastore is mounted

with Hosts
NFS

Virtual Volumes

Multipathing VMFS Path selection policy the host uses to access storage

Virtual Volumes