Storage Capability
Profiles
To use a storage capability profile, you
define storage requirements and associate a virtual machine with a storage
policy. When you create a VM,
vCenter Server
correlates its VM storage policy with the storage policy service to determine
an appropriate location for VM home and virtual disk files.
A storage policy consists of a
set of subprofiles. Each subprofile defines a set of storage capabilities, and
corresponds to a numbered Rule Set in the
vSphere Web Client
. Several storage policies pre-exist in vSphere, including:
- The VM Encryption Policy is a sample storage policy for VM Home and virtual disk encryption.
- The vSAN Default Storage Policy can be easily modified, but is the storage policy used by default for vSAN datastores.
- The VVol No Requirements Policy allows the storage array, through the VASA provider, to determine the best placement strategy for VM Home and virtual disks.
In the
vSphere Web Client
, all of these storage policies, and ones you create, have
a
Check
Compliance
button to verify that virtual machines assigned to that
storage policy are correctly placed on storage devices.