Add a VASA Provider and Create a Policy

You can add a VASA provider to a vCenter Server system and create a storage policy.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.
• Verify that the datastore is mounted to the ESXi host.

Procedure

1. Add a VASA provider to the vCenter Server system.

   $script:vasProvider = New-VasaProvider -Name 'name' -Url 'URL' -Username 'user_name' -Password 'password'  -Description 'description' -Force

2. Get all SPBM capabilities exposed by the registered VASA provider.

   Get-SpbmCapability

3. Create a new SPBM rule with the exposed capabilities of the registered VASA provider.

   $rule = New-SpbmRule -Capability $capability -Value $value

4. Create a new SPBM rule set.

   New-SpbmRuleSet -Name $ruleset -AllofRules @(($rule))

5. Create a storage policy.

   New-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name $storagepolicy -RuleSet $ruleset

6. Refresh the VASA provider registered with the vCenter Server system.

   $provider = Get-VasaProvider -Name $providername -Refresh

7. Verify the VASA storage array.

   $vasaStorageArray = Get-VasaStorageArray -Provider $vasaProvider -Server $script:vcsrv

8. Refresh the VASA provider registered with the vCenter Server system.

   $provider = Get-VasaProvider -Name $providername -Refresh

9. Get the VASA provider registered with the vCenter Server system.

   $vasaProvider = Get-VasaProvider -Name $providername

10. (Optional) Remove the VASA provider.

    Remove-VasaProvider -Provider $provider -Confirm:$false

11. (Optional) Verify that the VASA provider is removed.

    $provider = Get-VasaProvider -Name $providername