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You can use Filestore zonal, regional, and enterprise
tier instances as external datastores for VMware ESXi
hosts in Google Cloud VMware Engine.
To do so, you can create your Filestore instances in regions where both
VMware Engine and Filestore are available
and then mount them as external datastores to your existing VMware ESXi hosts
in VMware Engine.
VMware Engine offers the following vSphere storage options:
VMware vSAN. This includes the
storage that comes with each VMware Engine node.
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