6.5.1

Change the Default Storage Policy for a Datastore
For Virtual Volumes and vSAN datastores, VMware provides storage policies that are used as the default
during the virtual machine provisioning. You can change the default storage policy for a selected Virtual
Volumes or vSAN datastore.
Note A storage policy that contains replication rules should not be specified as a default storage policy.
Otherwise, the policy prevents you from selecting replication groups.
Prerequisites
Create a storage policy that is compatible with Virtual Volumes or vSAN. You can create a policy that
matches both types of storage.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client navigator, select Global Inventory Lists > Datastores.
2 Click the datastore.
3 Click the Configure tab.
4 Under Settings, click General.
5 Click Edit in the Default Storage Policy pane.
6 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.
Creating and Managing VM Storage Policies
To create and manage storage policies for your virtual machines, you use the VM Storage Policies
interface of the vSphere Web Client.
After the VM Storage Policies interface is populated with the appropriate data, you can start creating your
storage policies. When you create a storage policy, you define placement and data service rules. The
rules are the basic element of the VM storage policy. Within the policy, the rules are grouped in collections
of rules, or rule sets.
In certain cases, you can prepackage the rules in storage policy components. The components are
modular building blocks that you define in advance and can reference in multiple storage policies.
After you create the storage policy, you can edit or clone it, or delete any unused policies.
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