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Add a Storage Policy to a Provider Virtual Datacenter
Add a storage policy to a provider virtual datacenter to support the storage policy for organization virtual
datacenters backed by the provider virtual datacenter.
Storage policies 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 virtual datacenter name and select Open.
3 Click the Storage Policies tab.
4 Click Add Storage Policy.
5 Select a storage policy and click Add.
If you select Any, vCloud Director dynamically adds and removes datastores as they are added to or
removed from the provider virtual datacenter's clusters.
6 Click OK.
Support for the storage policy is added to the provider virtual datacenter.
What to do next
Configure organization virtual datacenters backed by the provider virtual datacenter to support the storage
policy. See “Add a Storage Policy to an Organization Virtual Datacenter,” on page 64.
Edit the Metadata for a Storage Policy on a Provider Virtual Datacenter
You can edit the metadata for a storage policy on a provider virtual datacenter.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider VDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider virtual datacenter name and select Open.
3 Click the Storage Policies tab.
4 Right-click a storage policy and select Properties.
5 Edit the metadata as appropriate and click OK.
Add a Resource Pool to a Provider Virtual Datacenter
You can add additional resource pools to a provider virtual datacenter so that Pay-As-You-Go and
Allocation Pool organization virtual datacenters that the provider virtual datacenter 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 virtual
datacenter's primary resource pool.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider VDCs in the left pane.
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