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Clicking on one Image Storage, will show us information about it in the right area of the main screen. The following figure shows an example.

Under the "Host List" title, there is a list of with the Hosts that can access this Image Storage. This detail is important because the Guests whose virtual disks (disk images from the perspective of Host) are housed in this Image Storage may run on any of these Hosts. This enables high availability of Guests.

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They are storage space provided by the Hosts, just as Volumes, but they store read-only images.

A low level corresponding to a shared drive From a technical point of view, they are shares accessed by CIFS/SMB. In detail fields shown the The values son in the figure, "IP address", "Path" and "User name", which are respectively the IP / hostname sharing of the machine serving the CIFS share, the path of the share, and the user that flexVDI connects uses to connect to resource.

Hosts listed under "Host list" are those who which will mount the share and have access to the Media Storage, which flexVDI Manager will request mounting share.

Direct Storages

The Direct Storage Guest provide direct access to the physical disks. Clicking on each of the Direct Storage, information about it will be displayed in the area on the right. The following figure can be seen all the information displayed.

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