What is Datastore?

The data store provides a repository of persistent information about the farm that each server can reference, including the following:
• Applications
• Administrators
• Folders
• Installation Manager groups
• Installation Manager packages
• Load evaluators
• Printers
• Printer drivers
• Policies
• Resource Manager metrics
• Servers
• Isolation Environments
• Farm configuration information
• Published application configurations
• Server configurations
• Trust relationships