Sample Scripts for Managing vSphere Policy-Based Storage with VMware PowerCLI

To help you get started with VMware PowerCLI, this documentation provides a set of sample scripts that illustrate basic and advanced tasks in vSphere policy-based storage management.

Subtopics

Create a Tag-Based Storage Policy

Create a Capability-Based Storage Policy

Associate a Storage Policy with a Virtual Machine and Its Hard Disk

Disassociate a Storage Policy Associated with a Virtual Machine and Its Hard Disk

Enable SPBM on a Cluster and Verify that It Is Enabled

Remove a Storage Policy

Edit a Storage Policy

Export and Import a Storage Policy

Create a Virtual Machine in a Datastore Compatible with Storage Policy

Create a vSAN Datastore

Modify a vSAN Datastore

Create a vSAN Stretched Cluster

Create an NFS 4.1 Datastore

Add a VASA Provider and Create a Policy

Invoke a Planned Failover on a Replication Group and Reverse the Replication

Attach a Flat VDisk to a Virtual Machine