Capacity monitoring
As we do capacity monitoring at the datastore cluster level, it becomes important that we know how the numbers are derived. Let's use an example as a way to test our understanding.
The following example uses a datastore cluster that has three datastores. Each has 1 TB, mapped to a 1 TB LUN. Let's verify what contributes to the Free column.
Datastore information in vCenter
To verify whether it is based on Thin, I added all the VMs in the datastore cluster, shown in the next diagram:
VM storage information in vCenter
Notice that they ...
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