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  • 1.  Hide system folders in the Datastore Browser

    Posted Feb 15, 2012 11:50 AM

    Hi,

    When I vew a datastore with the Datastore Browser I see two folders not related to the VM-s, it's .dvsData and .vSphere-HA. I have found that .dvsData is used for Distrbuted Switch (wich we have used earlier, but not anymore) and .vSphere-HA, as the name says is used by the HA functionality.

    Are these folders only used in newer editions of ESX? I can't remember ever seing those before (we have ESXi5 now). And I see they starts with a dot, shouldn't they be hidden then? Is it a setting I can set to hide these folders?



  • 2.  RE: Hide system folders in the Datastore Browser
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    Posted Feb 15, 2012 01:38 PM

    I don't think it is possible as it is not a linux. Datastore browser does not have many options to change.



  • 3.  RE: Hide system folders in the Datastore Browser

    Posted Feb 15, 2012 02:33 PM

    atle2 wrote:

    Hi,

    When I vew a datastore with the Datastore Browser I see two folders not related to the VM-s, it's .dvsData and .vSphere-HA. I have found that .dvsData is used for Distrbuted Switch (wich we have used earlier, but not anymore) and .vSphere-HA, as the name says is used by the HA functionality.

    Are these folders only used in newer editions of ESX? I can't remember ever seing those before (we have ESXi5 now). And I see they starts with a dot, shouldn't they be hidden then? Is it a setting I can set to hide these folders?

    .dvsData is not new, and contains the dvSwitch data for VMs. If you are using distributed switches, you'll have these folders.

    .vSphere-HA is new to vSphere 5 as HA now puts heartbeat files on the datastores in addition to heartbeating on the network.

    I'm not sure if you can hide them, but they are not hidden as a default.