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Add a Storage Profile to a Provider vDC
Add a storage profile to a provider vDC to support the storage profile for organization vDCs backed by the
provider vDC.
Storage profiles are created and managed in vSphere. See the vSphere documentation or contact your vSphere
administrator.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Open.
3 Click the Storage Profiles tab.
4 Click Add Storage Profile.
5 Select a storage profile, click Add and click OK.
Support for the storage profile is added to the provider vDC.
What to do next
Configure organization vDCs backed by the provider vDC to support the storage profile. See “Add a Storage
Profile to an Organization vDC,” on page 63.
Edit the Metadata for a Storage Profile on a Provider vDC
You can edit the metadata for a storage profile on a provider vDC.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Open.
3 Click the Storage Profiles tab.
4 Right-click a storage profile and select Properties.
5 Edit the metadata as appropriate and click OK.
Add a Resource Pool to a Provider vDC
You can add additional resource pools to a provider vDC so that Pay-As-You-Go and Allocation Pool
organization vDCs that the provider vDC provides can expand.
When compute resources are backed by multiple resource pools, they can expand as needed to accommodate
more virtual machines.
Prerequisites
Verify that one or more available resource pool exists in the same vCenter datacenter as the provider vDC's
primary resource pool.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Open.
3 Click the Resource Pools tab.
4 Click Add Resource Pool.
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