Extended Statistics
This primitive enables visibility into space usage on NAS datastores. This is especially useful for thin-provisioned
datastores because it enables vSphere to display actual space usage statistics in situations where
oversubscription was used. Previously, vSphere administrators needed to use array-based tools to manage and
monitor how much space a thinly provisioned VMDK was consuming on a back-end datastore. With this new
primitive, this information can be surfaced up in the VMware vSphere Client™. This enables vSphere
administrators to have a much better insight into storage resource consumption, without the need to rely on
third-party tools or engage with their storage array administrators. This post was last edited by KOL at 2018-11-24 08:08.