Create a Virtual Machine in a Datastore Compatible with Storage Policy

You can retrieve a datastore compatible with storage policy and create a virtual machine in the datastore.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.
• Verify that a tag-based storage policy named Tag-Policy exists in the vCenter Server environment.
• Verify that the tag of the Tag-Policy storage policy is associated with one of the available datastores in the vCenter Server environment.

Procedure

1. Get the tag-based Tag-Policy storage policy and store it in the $policy variable.

   $policy = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'Tag-Policy'

2. Get the tag used in the Tag-Policy storage policy and store it in the $tag variable.

   $tag = ($($($policy.AnyOfRulesets).AllOfRules).AnyOfTags)[0]

3. Get a datastore compatible with the $policy storage policy and store it in the $ds variable.

   $ds = Get-SpbmCompatibleStorage -StoragePolicy $policy

4. Get the virtual machine host that contains the $ds datastore and store it in the $vmhost variable.

   $vmHost = Get-VMHost -Datastore $ds

5. Create a virtual machine named VM-Tag in the $ds datastore and store the virtual machine object in the $vm variable.

   $vm = New-VM -Name 'VM-Tag' -ResourcePool $vmHost -Datastore $ds -NumCPU 2 -MemoryGB 4 -DiskMB 1

6. Associate the $policy storage policy with the $vm virtual machine.

   Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm -StoragePolicy $policy

7. Verify that the $vm virtual machine is compliant with the $policy storage policy.

   Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm

   The status should be Compliant.
8. Get the Tag-Assignment object for the $ds datastore and store it in the $tagAs variable.

   $tagAs = Get-TagAssignment -Entity $ds

9. Remove the $tag tag association from the $ds datastore.

   Remove-TagAssignment -TagAssignment $tagAs

10. Check the compliance of the $vm virtual machine with the $policy storage policy.

    Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm

    The status should be NonCompliant.