Create a VFS metastore

A PDI metastore is a location for storing resources shared by multiple tranformations. This enables Pentaho hyperscaler deployments to access the metastore in the cloud environment and also let the PDI client and the Pentaho Server reference the same VFS metastore. The VFS connection information is stored in an XML file The metastore can be located in three locations:

• The metastore can be stored on the machine where you're running PDI in either in your user directory or in a repository.

• If your PDI client is connected to the Pentaho Server, you will use a remote metastore located in your Pentaho Server repository.

• The metastore can be located in a cloud location accessible by a VFS connection.

Multiple users can access the metastore when it is stored in a remote location. The remote metastore has priority over a local metastore. For example, if you set up the PDI client with a valid metastore-config file and then connect to a Pentaho Server repository, your transformations will still use resources from the remote metastore, not the repository metastore.