VMware Storage
Policies
Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) helps
administrators automate VM provisioning on appropriate storage devices with
requested data services. This avoids laborious manual provisioning of storage
for individual VMs. For object-based datastores like vSAN and VVol, vendors
formulate metadata describing storage traits, and advertise storage
capabilities for profile queries.
Storage Capabilities Virtual Machine Storage Storage Capability Profiles vCenter Server correlates its VM storage policy with the storage policy service to determine an appropriate location for VM home and virtual disk files. Storage Policy Operations Access to the Storage Policy Server vCenter Server system and obtaining a vCenter session cookie. Storage Profile Queries VMware Storage Policy SDK