Provision VMs on vSphere Virtual Volumes Datastores

Follow this procedure to provision virtual machines on a vSphere Virtual Volumes datastore.

Note: All virtual disks that you provision on a Virtual Volumes datastore must be an even multiple of 1 MB.

A virtual machine that runs on a Virtual Volumes datastore requires an appropriate VM storage policy.

After you provision the virtual machine, you can perform typical VM management tasks. For information, see the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration documentation.

Procedure

1. Define a VM storage policy for Virtual Volumes.
   VMware provides a default No Requirements storage policy for Virtual Volumes. If you need, you can create a custom storage policy compatible with Virtual Volumes.

   See Create a VM Storage Policy for Virtual Volumes.

2. Assign the Virtual Volumes storage policy to the virtual machine.
   To guarantee that the Virtual Volumes datastore fulfills specific storage requirements when allocating a virtual machine, associate the Virtual Volumes storage policy with the virtual machine.

   See Assign Storage Policies to Virtual Machines.

3. Change default storage policy for a Virtual Volumes datastore.
   For virtual machines provisioned on Virtual Volumes datastores, VMware provides a default No Requirements policy. You cannot edit this policy, but you can designate a newly created policy as default.

   See Change the Default Storage Policy for a Datastore.