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title: "VMware vSphere Datastores"
description: "You can view the list of datastores in your VMware vSphere infrastructure — on vCenter Server or in a datacenter. To view the list of datastores: Open Veeam ONE Client. For details, see Accessing Veeam ONE Components."
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dateModified: "2026-10-23"
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# VMware vSphere Datastores

You can view the list of datastores in your VMware vSphere infrastructure — on vCenter Server or in a datacenter.

To view the list of datastores:

1. Open Veeam ONE Client.

   For details, see [Accessing Veeam ONE Components](access.md).

2. At the bottom of the inventory pane, click **Virtual Infrastructure**.
3. In the inventory pane, select the necessary infrastructure container.
4. Open the **Infrastructure Objects** tab and navigate to **Datastores**.
5. To find the necessary datastore by name, use the **Search** field at the top of the list.
6. Click column names to sort datastores by a specific parameter.

   For example, to view what datastores have the greatest amount of free space, you can sort datastores in the list by **Free Space**.

[![List of Datastores](images/vmware_datastores_list.png "List of Datastores")](images/vmware_datastores_list.png){.toggle scale=50}

For every host in the list, the following details are available:

- **Object** — name of the datastore
- **Parent Object** — name of the parent object in the infrastructure
- **File System** — type of the file system on the datastore
- **Capacity** — total capacity of the datastore
- **Free Space** — amount of available free space on the datastore
- **VM Count** — number of VMs that reside on the datastore

You can choose what columns to show or hide in the **Hosts** table:

- To hide one or more columns, right-click the table header, and clear check boxes next to the corresponding data fields.
- To make hidden columns visible, right-click the table header, and select check boxes next to the corresponding data fields.