Use the Remote Datastores page to view remote datastores mounted to the local vSAN cluster, and client clusters sharing the local datastore.

View remote datastores

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the local vSAN cluster.
  2. Click the Configure tab.
  3. Under vSAN, click Remote Datastores.

Results

This view lists information about each datastore mounted to the local cluster.
  • Server cluster that hosts the datastore
  • vCenter of the server cluster (if applicable)
  • Capacity usage of the datastore
  • Free capacity available
  • Number of VMs using the datastore (number of VMs using the compute resources of the local cluster, but the storage resources of the server cluster)
  • Client clusters that have mounted the datastore

What to do next

You can mount or unmount remote datastores from this page.