City library catalog VMs need a place to keep their virtual-disk files on VMFS or vSAN. Which vSphere component presents that storage to the VMs?
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Short Explanation
A datastore is the library shelf where the VMDK books sit. VMFS or vSAN can back that shelf, but the vSphere object the VM uses is still the datastore. NSX segments and gateways move packets; they do not present disks.
Full Explanation
vSphere datastores present VMFS, NFS, or vSAN capacity and store virtual-machine files such as VMDKs and configuration files. That storage object is independent of NSX overlay or VLAN segments. An overlay segment is a logical L2 network, a Tier-0 gateway is a north-south router, and a transport zone defines which transport nodes share a switching fabric. None of those NSX objects is the vSphere datastore.