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Tags with name “Gold” not found on datastore”. Datastore does not satisfy compatibility since it does not support one or more required properties. Warning shown in above screenshot also shows the same. Note that this is expected as SDRS POD has 3 datastores and 2 of those have “Gold” tag attached and 3rd has “Silver” attached. If you see in above screenshot, SDRS POD is listed under “incompatible” storage. Start create VM workflow > Give VM name as “GoldVM” > select compute resource > under select storage, select VM storage policy as “Gold VM Storage Policy” that we created in last section and storage as SDRS POD we created initially as shown in below screenshot Note that in the very first step we have set the “EnforceStorageProfiles” SDRS option to 1 i.e. Lets try out some workflows from SDRS perspective to verify whether profiles are being considered by SDRS. Now we are ready to play with SDRS with Storage profile integration feature. At this moment you will have 2 VM storage policies “Gold VM Storage Policy” and “Silver VM Storage Policy”. – Similar to “Gold VM Storage Policy” creation, repeat above steps to create “Silver VM Storage Policy” based on “Silver” tag. Finally click on finish at the end as shown below screenshot. – On Storage compatibility UI page, keep default and click next. – On Rule-Sets window, click on Add tag-based rule and select “Gold” tag under “FC SAN” category as shown in below screenshot. Once you click on “Create a new VM storage policy”, specify policy name as “Gold VM Storage Policy” and Click next. – Go to Home > Policies and profiles > VM storage policy > Click on the create VM storage policy as specified in below screen shot. You can see in above screenshot, DS3 was assigned with “Silver” tag. You can see the assigned tags for each datastore as shown below screenshot. Finally assign “Silver” tag to datastore DS3. Please assign “Gold” tag to the DS1 as well as DS2. Go to SDRS POD >DS1 > Manage > Tags > Click on Assign tags as shown in below screenshot Assign the tags to datastores in SDRS POD. At this point make sure you have 2 tags, Gold and Silver.ģ. Similar to Gold tag, please create a “Silver” tag with “iSCSI SAN” category. – Go to Home > Tags > click on New tag and create a “Gold” tag with “FC SAN” category as shown in below screenshot Tags are required to attach to all the datastores in datastore cluster (as per datastore capability) as well as to create tag based VM storage policies. Creating 2 Tags named “Gold” and Silver”. You could see I had set this option to 1 i.e. Click on Edit and configure the option “EnforceStorageProfiles” as shown in below screenshot. Go to SDRS Cluster > Manage > Settings > Storage DRS web client workflow. Create a SDRS cluster (aka POD) with 3 datastores namely DS1, DS2 and DS3. Configuring SDRS advanced option to enable SOFT (1) storage profile enforcement with Storage DRS.

Now I will walk you through vSphere web client workflows as follows in order to play with this cool feature.

#Spbm file to vcf how to

Refer KB 2142765 in order to know how to configure SDRS advanced option “EnforceStorageProfiles” using vSphere web client and vSphere client. In any case, SDRS will not violate the storage profile. When option is set to 2, it is mean that there is storage profile HARD enforcement on the SDRS cluster. However if required, SDRS will violate the storage profile compliant. SDRS will try its best to comply with storage profile/policy. When option is set to 1, it is mean that there is storage profile SOFT enforcement on the SDRS cluster. When option is set to 0, it is mean that NO storage profile enforcement on the SDRS cluster. Advanced option EnforceStorageProfiles takes one of these integer values, 0,1 or 2 where the default value is 0. Here we goĪs part of this SDRS integration with storage profiles/policy, One SDRS cluster level advanced option is introduced i.e. Recently I got opportunity to play with this feature and I thought to write a detailed post which can help all. Now SDRS is aware of storage policies in SPBM (Storage Policy Based Management). As per this KB I am happy to know that in vCenter Server 6.0.0b and above, Storage DRS is fully supported to have storage profile enforcement. In vSphere 6.0 GA, there were some public references of its support but no detailed documentation was available.

SDRS integration with storage profiles was one of the cool features I was waiting for since vSphere 5.5.