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7 (Optional) Create a category:
a Select New Category.
b Specify the category options.
Category Property Example
Category Name Storage Category
Description Category for tags related to storage
Cardinality Many tags per object
Associable Object Types Datastore and Datastore Cluster
8 Click OK.
The new tag is assigned to the datastore and appears on the datastore's Summary tab in the Tags pane.
What to do next
You can reference the tag when adding tag-based rules to the storage policy. See “Add or Edit Tag-Based
Rules,” on page 234. The datastore appears in a list of compatible storage resources for virtual machines that
use the policy.
Define a Storage Policy for a Virtual Machine
When you dene storage policies for virtual machines, you specify storage requirements for applications
that will run on the virtual machines.
A storage policy can be based on data services that are advertised by a storage entity or on datastore tags.
The policy can also reference common data services that the I/O lters framework provides.
Prerequisites
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If you use VM storage policies with storage providers, verify that an appropriate storage provider is
registered. See Chapter 25, “Using Storage Providers,” on page 277.
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Required privileges: VM storage policies.Update and VM storage policies.View.
Procedure
1 Start VM Storage Policy Creation Process on page 233
To dene a virtual machine storage policy, use the Create New VM Storage Policy wizard.
2 Dene Common Rules for a VM Storage Policy on page 233
Common rules are based on data services that are generic for all types of storage and do not depend
on a datastore. These data services become available in the VM Storage Policies interface when you
install third-party I/O lters developed through vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering. You can reference these
data services in a storage policy.
3 Create Storage-Specic Rules for a VM Storage Policy on page 233
Datastore-specic rules are based on data services that storage entities such as Virtual SAN and
Virtual Volumes advertise. To the virtual machine that uses this policy, the datastore guarantees that it
can satisfy the storage requirements of the virtual machine. The datastore also guarantees that it can
provide a specic set of characteristics for capacity, performance, availability, redundancy, and so on.
4 Add or Edit Tag-Based Rules on page 234
When you dene or edit a storage policy for virtual machines, you can create or modify a rule that
references tags that you used for particular datastores. The datastores become compatible with that
type of storage policy.
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