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VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide
Using the mouseover menu to the left of the field, you can filter across all columns
on the page or within a specific column.
The filter text search does not recognize wildcards. If you enter a traditional
wildcard, such as an asterisk (*), this function performs a literal search for an
asterisk symbol.
Add Media Storage – Enables you to add SMB or NFS storage for media files.
Viewing Virtual Machine Storage Usage
From the Virtual Machine Storage Usage page, you can assess disk space usage for all
virtual machines from graphical and tabular views and complete maintenance tasks.
To access the Virtual Machine Storage Usage page
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In the left pane, click Storage.
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In the Virtual Machines tab, click View Storage Usage.
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To view the contents of a single virtual machine storage server rather than the
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contents of all virtual machine storage servers, click the Virtual Machines tab
described in this section, move the pointer over the storage server name, and
choose View Storage Usage from the menu.
Review these elements of the Virtual Machine Storage Usage page:
Machine Name – Provides a mouseover menu to view the high‐level topography
of the virtual machine directories (see "Assessing Virtual Machine Disk Space" on
page 130) and undeploy the virtual machine.
Configuration Name – Indicates the name of the configuration containing the
virtual machine.
A dash appears in this column for templates.
Storage Server – Indicates the VMFS storage server for virtual machines.
User Name – Indicates the name of the user who owns the virtual machine.
Status – Displays the status (for example, Deployed or Undeployed) of the virtual
machine.
When a virtual machine is in a transitory state, such as exporting, importing, or
consolidating, a spinning icon appears in this column. If an error occurs during an
operation, click the error messages in this column for details.
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