Data Collection Options and VM Server Detail
If this report is accessed via a drilldown from another report, the values shown represent the type of data collection that was configured to collect this data.
A Virtualization Manager data collection policy can be configured to gather data as follows:
(default option): Collect only the data associated with the VMs in the inventory.
: Perform a full scan of the datastore to discover files that are resident on the datastore, but not associated with a VM in the inventory. This option finds files that may be invisible to VMware, but that are consuming space on the datastore.
When the option is configured in the data collector policy, it has the following impact on fields shown in this report:
VM Not In Inventory will be zero.
Total VM Used will be reduced by the amount that would have been collected as VM Not In Inventory if an all files collection had been done.
When the option is configured in the data collector policy, it has the following impact on fields shown in this report:
The Last Modified date will be missing for files not found in the datastore scan.