Tag-Based Storage Profiles To use a tag-based storage profile, you assign a storage policy tag to a datacenter, define a storage requirement profile based on the tag, and associate the profile with a virtual machine. When you create the virtual machine, the vCenter Server will use the Storage Policy Server to resolve the tag reference in the profile and determine a datastore for virtual machine storage. ■ To associate a storage policy tag with a datacenter, use the vSphere Web Client. ■ To create a tag-based storage requirements profile, you retrieve metadata associated with a storage policy tag and create a storage profile that contains identifiers from the tag metadata. ■ To associate the storage profile with a virtual machine, see Apply the Storage Profile to a Virtual Machine.