Add a VM Storage Policy to a Provider Virtual Data Center in Your VMware Cloud Director

You can use the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal to add a VM storage policy to a provider virtual data center, after which you can configure organization virtual data centers backed by this provider virtual data center to support the added storage policy.

Prerequisites

• Your vSphere administrator created the target VM storage policy. For information about Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM), see the vSphere Storage documentation.
• Refresh the Storage Policies of a vCenter Instance in Your VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
2. From the secondary left panel, select Provider VDCs, and click the name of the target provider virtual data center.
3. Under Policies, select Storage and click Add.
4. Select one or more storage policies that you want to add, and click Add.
   If you select * (Any), VMware Cloud Director dynamically adds and removes datastores as they are added to or removed from the datastore clusters of the provider virtual data center.

What to do next

Configure organization virtual data centers backed by the provider virtual data center to support the storage policy. See Add a VM Storage Policy to a VMware Cloud Director Organization Virtual Data Center.