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4 Apply the VM storage policy to a virtual machine. You can apply the storage policy when deploying the
virtual machine or conguring its virtual disks. See “Assign Storage Policies to Virtual Machines,” on
page 237.
5 Change the storage policy for virtual machine home les or virtual disks. See “Change Storage Policy
Assignment for Virtual Machine Files and Disks,” on page 238.
6 Verify that virtual machines and virtual disks use datastores that are compliant with the assigned
storage policy. See “Check Compliance for a VM Storage Policy,” on page 240.
Creating and Managing VM Storage Policies
To enable, create, and manage storage policies for your virtual machines, you can generally use the VM
Storage Policies interface of the vSphere Web Client.
If you use storage policies with Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes, or I/O Filters, see the documentation for more
information:
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Administering VMware Virtual SAN
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Chapter 19, “Working with Virtual Volumes,” on page 213
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Chapter 21, “Filtering Virtual Machine I/O,” on page 243
Assign Tags to Datastores
When your datastore is not represented by a storage provider and does not display its capabilities and data
services in the VM Storage Polices interface, use tags to encode information about the datastore. You can
reference these tags when dening a storage policy for a virtual machine.
You can apply a new tag that contains storage information to a datastore. For information about tags, their
categories, and how to manage tags, see the vCenter Server and Host Management documentation.
Procedure
1 Browse to a datastore in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
2 Click the Manage tab and click Tags.
3 Click the New Tag icon.
4 In the vCenter Server drop-down menu, select the vCenter Server instance on which to create the tag.
5 Type a name and a description for the tag.
For example, you can specify a broad storage-level denition, such as Gold Storage, or indicate a
property that is not communicated through a storage provider, such as geographical location or
administrative group.
Tag Property Example
Name Fault Tolerance
Description Storage that has a capacity over 2 TB and is fault-tolerant
6 In the Category drop-down menu, select an existing category or create a category.
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