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Table Of Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Updated Information
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Provisioning with vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vCloud Air or vCloud Director Checklist
- Using Custom Properties in vApp Machine Provisioning, Blueprints, and Build Profiles
- Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
- Configure Machine Prefixes
- Create a Business Group for vCloud Provisioning
- vCloud Reservations
- Optional Configurations
- Preparing for vApp Provisioning
- Creating vApp and vApp Component Blueprints
- Configuring Advanced Blueprint Settings
- Monitoring Workflows and Viewing Logs
- Machine Life Cycle and Workflow States for vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
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Storage Reservation Policies for vApps
Fabric administrators create storage reservation policies to allow tenant administrators and business
group managers to assign the volumes of a virtual machine to different storage profiles.
When you assign the volumes of a virtual machine to a different storage profile, tenant administrators and
business group managers can control and use storage space more effectively. For example, they might
deploy the operating system volume to a slower, less expensive storage profile and the database volume
to a faster storage profile.
Tenant administrators and business group managers can assign a single storage profile or a storage
reservation policy that represents multiple storage profiles to a volume. When they assign a single
storage profile to a volume, vRealize Automation uses that storage profile at provisioning time. When they
assign a storage reservation policy to a volume, vRealize Automation uses one of its storage profiles at
provisioning time.
A storage reservation policy is a tag applied to one or more storage profiles by a fabric administrator to
group storage profiles that have similar characteristics, such as speed or price. A storage profile can be
assigned to only one storage reservation policy at a time, but a storage reservation policy can have many
different storage profiles. A fabric administrator creates a storage reservation policy and assigns it to one
or more storage profiles. A tenant administrator or business group manager assigns the storage
reservation policy to a volume in a virtual blueprint. When a user requests a virtual machine that uses the
blueprint, vRealize Automation uses the storage reservation policy specified in the blueprint to select a
storage profile for the machine’s volume.
Configure a Storage Reservation Policy
Fabric administrators create vRealize Automation storage reservation policies to group datastores that
have similar characteristics, such as speed or price. After you create the storage reservation policy, you
then need to populate it with datastores before tenant administrators and business group managers can
use the policy in a blueprint.
vCloud Director 5.5 does not allow a virtual machine to have disks in different storage tiers. For example,
if you change the storage reservation policy for one volume in a vApp, vRealize Automation changes the
storage reservation policy for all the volumes in that vApp. You cannot provision a virtual machine with
volumes on different types of storage.
Prerequisites
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a fabric administrator.
Procedure
1 Create a Storage Reservation Policy
When you create a storage reservation policy, you are creating an empty container that you use to
group datastores that have similar characteristics, such as speed or price.
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