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Chapter 7 Introduction to Storage

3 In Hardware, select Storage.

4Click Devices.

5To view additional details about a specific device, select the device from the list.

Display Storage Devices for an Adapter

You can display a list of storage devices accessible to a specific storage adapter on the host.

Procedure

1In Inventory, select Hosts and Clusters.

2 Select a host and click the Configuration tab.

3In Hardware, select Storage Adapters.

4 Select the adapter from the Storage Adapters list.

5Click Devices.

Copy Storage Device Identifiers to the Clipboard

A storage device identifier is a universally unique ID assigned to a storage device or LUN. Depending on the type of storage, different algorithms are used to create the identifier and it can be long and complex. You can copy the storage device identifier directly from the UI.

Procedure

1Display a list of storage devices.

2Right-click a device and select Copy identifier to clipboard.

Displaying Datastores

You can display all datastores available to your hosts and analyze their properties. Datastores are added to the vSphere Client in the following ways:

nCreated on an available storage device.

nDiscovered when a host is added to the inventory. When you add a host to the inventory, the vSphere Client displays any datastores available to the host.

If your vSphere Client is connected to a vCenter Server system, you can see datastore information in the Datastores view. This view displays all datastores in the inventory, arranged by a datacenter. Through this view, you can organize datastores into folder hierarchies, create datastores, edit their properties, or remove existing datastores.

This view is comprehensive and shows all information for your datastores including hosts and virtual machines using the datastores, storage reporting information, permissions, alarms, tasks and events, storage topology, and storage reports. Configuration details for each datastore on all hosts connected to this datastore are provided on the Configuration tab of the Datastores view.

NOTE The Datastores view is not available when the vSphere client connects directly to your host. In this case, review datastore information through the host storage configuration tab.

Table 7-5 describes the datastore details that you can see when you review datastores.

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Table 7-5. Datastore Information

Datastore Information

Description

 

 

Identification

Editable name that you assign to the datastore.

 

 

Device

Storage device on which the datastore is deployed.

 

 

Capacity

Total formatted capacity of the datastore.

 

 

Free

Available space.

 

 

Type

File system that the datastore uses, either VMFS or NFS.

 

 

Storage I/O Control

Allows cluster-wide storage I/O prioritization. See the vSphere Resource Management

 

Guide.

 

 

Hardware Acceleration

Information on whether the datastore assists the host with virtual machine management

 

operations. The status can be Supported, Not Supported, or Unknown. For details, see

 

“Storage Hardware Acceleration,” on page 125.

 

 

Location

A path to the datastore in the /vmfs/volumes/ directory.

 

 

Extents

Individual extents that the datastore spans and their capacity (VMFS datastores only).

 

 

Path Selection

Path selection policy the host uses to access storage (VMFS datastores only).

 

 

Paths

Number of paths used to access storage and their status (VMFS datastores only).

 

 

Review Datastore Properties

You can display all datastores available to the hosts and analyze their properties.

Procedure

1Display the host in the inventory.

2 Select a host in the inventory and click the Configuration tab. 3 In Hardware, select Storage.

4Click the Datastores view.

5To display details for a particular datastore, select the datastore from the list.

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