introduction
Datastores in VMware vSphere are storage containers for files. They could be located on a local server hard drive or across the network on a [ SAN ISCSI. NAS ]
Datastores hide the specifics of each storage device and provide a uniform model for storing virtual machine files.
Datastores are used to hold virtual machine files, templates, and ISO images. They can be formatted with VMFS (Virtual Machine File System, a clustered file system from VMware), or with a file system native to the storage provider (in the case of a NAS/NFS device).
To display datastore information using the vSphere Web Client, go to vCenter > Datastores:
ESXI Storage Network Diagram
let us to look to network diagram above
ESXI151 currently have 2 HDD
first one : HDD01 just for operating system
normally operating system installed on flash to save storage , if server support
second HDD : 400 GB , but NOT configured yet , which will be et a local data store
Server ESXI151 alo conn connect to ISCSI storage to utilize remote storage : which will be discussed in advanced article
create local data store
in this article : we will see how to create local datastore
later when deep diving into vShpere : we will also discuss how to connect to remote storage either ASN , NAS , ISCSI in different article for each
also we have totally separate course about vSAN storage
conclusion
in this article we have got overview about ESXI storage
and how to create local Data Store
this article was necessary just to create datastore , which will be used in next article to create Virtual Machine
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