6.5.1

After you provision the virtual machine, you can perform typical VM management tasks. For information,
see the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration documentation.
For troubleshooting information, see the vSphere Troubleshooting documentation.
Procedure
1 Define a VM Storage Policy for Virtual Volumes
VMware provides a default No Requirements storage policy for Virtual Volumes. If you need, you
can create a custom storage policy compatible with Virtual Volumes.
2 Assign the Virtual Volumes Storage Policy to Virtual Machines
To guarantee that the Virtual Volumes datastore fulfills specific storage requirements when allocating
a virtual machine, associate the Virtual Volumes storage policy with the virtual machine.
3 Change Default Storage Policy for a Virtual Volumes Datastore
For virtual machines provisioned on Virtual Volumes datastores, VMware provides a default No
Requirements policy. You cannot edit this policy, but you can designate a newly created policy as
default.
Define a VM Storage Policy for Virtual Volumes
VMware provides a default No Requirements storage policy for Virtual Volumes. If you need, you can
create a custom storage policy compatible with Virtual Volumes.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the Virtual Volumes storage provider is available and active. See Register Storage
Providers for Virtual Volumes.
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Make sure that the VM Storage Policies interface is populated with information about storage entities
and data services that are available in your storage environment. See Populating the VM Storage
Policies Interface.
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Define appropriate storage policy components. See Create Storage Policy Components.
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Required privileges: VM storage policies.Update and VM storage policies.View.
Procedure
1 From the vSphere Web Client Home, click Policies and Profiles > VM Storage Policies.
2 Click the VM Storage Policies tab.
3 Click the Create a New VM Storage Policy icon.
4 Select the vCenter Server instance.
5 Type a name and a description for the storage policy.
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