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title: "Prepositions Before Infrastructure Objects"
description: "For some reason, Russian-speaking technical writers, QA engineers and developers tend to use the preposition on when talking about resources managed by vCenter Servers and data stored in storage containers."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/styleguide/tw/prepositions.html"
breadcrumb: "Style Guide > Tips and Tricks > Prepositions Before Infrastructure Objects"
dateModified: "2026-09-03"
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# Prepositions Before Infrastructure Objects

For some reason, Russian-speaking technical writers, QA engineers and developers tend to use the preposition **on** when talking about resources managed by vCenter Servers and data stored in storage containers. Do not fall into the trap — in English, you must use the preposition **in** in both these cases.

::: tip

The only situation where you may need to use the preposition **on** is when you want to describe processes and services running on infrastructure objects. However, keep in mind that you must use the preposition **in** when talking about processes running inside VMs (that is, in guest OSes).

:::

### Examples

1. By default, Veeam Backup & Replication places the disks [in the datastore]{.mdhl-correct} where the VM configuration file is stored.
2. Files from tape-archived backups will appear in search results only if not found [in the repository]{.mdhl-correct}.
3. You will get an error if Orchestrator fails to find the recovered datastore [in the datacenter]{.mdhl-correct}.
4. This monitor collects information on all processes currently running [on the host]{.mdhl-correct}.
5. Make sure that VMware Tools are installed and running [on the VMs]{.mdhl-correct} that you plan to monitor.
6. The report analyzes historical data on the *% Memory Used* and *% Processor Time* performance metric values collected by the OpsMgr agent running [in the guest OS]{.mdhl-correct}.