The storage policy is applied to the replica disks at the target site at the time you first configure a replication. During the vSphere Replication Management Server recovery process, it is applied to the virtual machine and its disks.

If the target datastore is vSAN, you can reconfigure a replication with a new storage policy. The replica base disks are resynced with the new storage policy.
Note: If the target datastore is vSAN, the replica child disks are not resynced with the new storage policy.

If the target datastore is not vSAN and you reconfigure a replication to assign a new storage policy to replicated virtual disks, it is not immediately reflected to the replica disks at the target site. The storage policy is applied only after a recovery process.

Change the Storage Policy

You can change the storage policy of replica disks to the target site to a non-vSAN datastore.

Procedure

  1. Recover the virtual machines with the reconfigured replication.
  2. To change the storage policy of the recovered virtual machines to the new policy, use the vSphere Client.
  3. Unregister the recovered virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory.
  4. Configure the replication again by using the new storage policy and seeds.