A shared disk can be mapped and used by more than one virtual machines that run compatible applications. Note that if the disk is shared by virtual machines running different applications that do not support disk sharing, disk data may get damaged. However, that is not a problem for Oracle RAC database environment, which supports disk sharing among nodes in RAC (Real Application Clusters).

On the Shared Disks tab shown below, it displays the following information: Name, Status, Virtual Datastore, Disk Size, Write Speed, Read Speed, and Connected Virtual Machines.