Setting up your ESXi storage in traditional environments, includes configuring your storage systems and devices, enabling storage adapters, and creating datastores.
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Types of Physical Storage In traditional storage environments, the ESXi storage management process starts with storage space that your storage administrator preallocates on different storage systems. ESXi supports local storage and networked storage.
Supported Storage Adapters Storage adapters provide connectivity for your ESXi host to a specific storage unit or network.
Datastore Characteristics Datastores are logical containers, analogous to file systems, that hide specifics of each storage device and provide a uniform model for storing virtual machine files. You can display all datastores available to your hosts and analyze their properties.
Using Persistent Memory Devices with ESXi ESXi supports next generation persistent memory devices, also known as Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) devices. These devices combine performance and speed of memory with the persistence of traditional storage. They can retain stored data through reboots or power source failures.