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User-Defined Default Policies for Virtual Machine Storage
You can create a VM storage policy that is compatible with Virtual SAN or Virtual Volumes, and designate
this policy as the default for Virtual SAN and virtual datastores. The user-dened default policy replaces the
default storage policy that VMware provided.
Each Virtual SAN and virtual datastore can have only one default policy at a time. However, you can create
a single storage policy that matches multiple Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes datastores and designate it
as the default policy for all datastores.
When the VM storage policy becomes the default policy for a datastore, you cannot delete the policy unless
you disassociate it from the datastore.
Change the Default Storage Policy for a Datastore
For Virtual Volumes and Virtual SAN datastores, VMware provides storage policies that are used as the
default during virtual machine provisioning. You can change the default storage policy for a selected Virtual
Volumes or Virtual SAN datastore.
Prerequisites
Create a storage policy that is compatible with Virtual Volumes or Virtual SAN. You can create a policy that
matches both types of storage.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client navigator, select vCenter Inventory Lists > Datastores
2 Click the datastore.
3 Click the Manage tab and click .
4 Click General, and click Edit in the Default Storage Policy pane.
5 From the list of available storage policies, select a policy to designate as the default and click OK.
The selected storage policy becomes the default policy for the datastore. vSphere assigns this policy to any
virtual machine objects that you provision on the datastore when no other policy is selected.
Assign Storage Policies to Virtual Machines
You can assign a VM storage policy in an initial deployment of a virtual machine or when you perform other
virtual machine operations, such as cloning or migrating.
This topic describes how to assign the VM storage policy when you create a virtual machine. For
information about other deployment methods that include cloning, deployment from a template, and so on,
see the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration documentation.
You can apply the same storage policy to the virtual machine conguration le and all its virtual disks. If
storage requirements for your virtual disks and the conguration le are dierent, you can associate
dierent storage policies with the VM conguration le and the selected virtual disks.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, start the virtual machine provisioning process and follow the appropriate
steps.
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