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Provisioned Storage is what you've allocated it's VMDK. A datastore is a proprietary VMFS volume that stores VMs.<br />
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Hope that helps.<br />
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~coolsport00
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Provisioned Storage is what you've allocated it's VMDK. A datastore is a proprietary VMFS volume that stores VMs.

Hope that helps.

~coolsport00

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You mean Datastore is for VMFS where OS is installed (C drive) and Provisioned Storage &nbsp;it's VMDK which use for logical drive ?
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You mean Datastore is for VMFS where OS is installed (C drive) and Provisioned Storage  it's VMDK which use for logical drive ?

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Typo - &quot;like your hard disk in *your* workstation&quot; :)
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Typo - "like your hard disk in *your* workstation" :)

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Correct,...good additional point &quot;paulsolov&quot;; and 'Provisioned' can be more than 'used' due to ...say...snapshots being present. So, it can be a bit confusing.
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Correct,...good additional point "paulsolov"; and 'Provisioned' can be more than 'used' due to ...say...snapshots being present. So, it can be a bit confusing.

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Ok I see so normally Provisoned Storage should be less than datastore right?
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Ok I see so normally Provisoned Storage should be less than datastore right?

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Thank you everybody for your helps!
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On VSphere Client on a VM machine in Summary tab, in Ressources section what is the difference between <b>Provisioned Storage</b> and <b>Datastore</b>?
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On VSphere Client on a VM machine in Summary tab, in Ressources section what is the difference between Provisioned Storage and Datastore?

What is the difference between Provisioned Storage and Datastore?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.