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Data services the I/O filters provide.
Prerequisites
Register the storage providers that require manual registration. For more information, see the appropriate
documentation:
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Chapter 23 Filtering Virtual Machine I/O
Procedure
1 Browse to the vCenter Server instance.
2 Click the Configure tab, and click Storage Providers.
3 In the Storage Providers list, view the storage providers registered with vCenter Server.
The list shows general information including the name of the storage provider, its URL and status,
storage entities that the provider represents, and so on.
4 To display more details, select a specific storage provider or its component from the list.
Assign Tags to Datastores
Use tags to encode information about a datastore. The tags are helpful when your datastore is not
represented by a storage provider and does not advertise its services in the VM Storage Polices
interface. You can also use the tags to indicate a property that is not communicated through a storage
provider, such as a geographical location or administrative group.
You can apply a new tag that contains general storage information to a datastore. For more details about
the tags, their categories, and how to manage the tags, see the vCenter Server and Host Management
documentation.
Prerequisites
Required privileges:
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vSphere Tagging.Create vSphere Tag Category on the root vCenter Server instance
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vSphere Tagging.Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag on the root vCenter Server instance
Procedure
1 Create a category for storage tags.
a From the Home menu, click Tags & Custom Attributes.
b Click the Tags tab and click Categories.
c Click the Add Category icon.
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