The unit for space to represent the datastore capacity on the vCenter Server or the ESXi host

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• What is the unit of space to represent the datastore capacity on the vCenter Server or the ESXi host?
• What system is used to represent the datastore capacity?

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Resolution

• The VMware vCenter Server and the ESXi host uses the International System of Units (SI) or the Metric System or the Decimal System to represent the Datastore Capacity
• The VMware vCenter Server therefore may represent the datastore capacity either in GBs(Giga Bytes) or TBs (Tera Bytes)
• On the ESXi host it may be represented in Bytes although the system used will still be the Decimal or the SI system

 

Additional Information

• Storage Units within vCenter and VMware Cloud on AWS
• Space Capacity by Datastore in GB