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Storage Pools is part of the wider Storage area under Compute, alongside Storage Policies, Compliance, Recommendations, and Capabilities. This page covers pools; the related pages govern how disks are placed on them.
The Storage Pools view
Navigate to Compute > Storage > Storage Pools (/storage-pools) to see every pool across all clusters in one table.
Columns
The table shows the following columns.Controls
The controls above the table let you search, shape, and export the view:- Filter storage pools… — narrow the table with free text or query-style expressions, for example
type:nfs. - Columns — choose which columns are visible.
- Export CSV — download the current view for reporting or offline analysis.
- Refresh — reload pool data on demand.
- Add Storage Pool — register a new pool and make it available to a cluster.
- Global search — the top-bar search spans VMs, hosts, networks, and users, and supports scoped queries such as
vm:name.
Add a storage pool
Select Add Storage Pool to register a new pool. Complete the following fields.The storage pool detail screen
Click a pool name to open its detail screen. The header identifies the pool, its backing type (for example, NFS storage pool), and its current state, with a Back to storage pools link and an Actions menu for pool-level operations. Three tabs organize the pool’s information.Overview
The landing tab summarizes the pool’s identity, capacity, and mount health:
Check Host Mounts first when troubleshooting. Every host in the cluster should show the pool as
mounted with compliant options — a host that has lost its mount, or mounts the pool with non-standard options, can strand or degrade the VMs placed on it. The compliance column surfaces this drift without requiring you to inspect each host individually.
The storage tier shown under Details connects the pool to storage policies. Policies target tiers, so a disk governed by a given policy is only placed on pools of a matching tier.
Virtual Machines
Lists every virtual machine with one or more disks on this pool — the immediate answer to “what is affected if this pool degrades?” Each row shows the VM’s host, power state, guest status, CPU and memory allocation, allocated versus consumed space, guest hostname, IP address, and pool presence. Use the Search VMs… box to find a specific workload and the Columns selector to tailor the table.Allocated Space is what the VM’s disks are provisioned to grow to; Consumed Space is what they occupy today. The gap between the two across all VMs on a pool is your thin-provisioning exposure — a pool can be overcommitted on allocation long before Usage % looks alarming.
Browse
A file-level view of the pool’s contents. Navigate folders, search files, and see each item’s size, modification time, and — for disk images — the VM that uses it, which ties files on disk back to the workloads that own them. Toolbar controls:- Refresh — reload the current folder listing.
- New Folder — create a folder in the current location.
- Upload — upload a file, for example an ISO image or a disk image being imported.