PowerCLI Datastore Provider
The Datastore Provider is designed to provide access to the contents of one or more datastores.
The items in a datastore are files that contain configuration, virtual disk, and the other data associated with a virtual machine.
When you connect to a server
with
Connect-VIServer, the
cmdlet builds two default datastore drives:
vmstore and
vmstores. The
vmstore drive
provides a list of the datastores available on the vSphere server that you last
connected to.
Note: If you establish
multiple connections to the same vSphere server, the
vmstore drive is not
updated.
The
vmstores drive
contains all datastores available on all vSphere servers that you connected to
within the current
PowerCLI session.
You can use the default datastore drives or create custom drives based on the default ones.