When incorporating storage policies into a vSphere design, perform the following steps:
- Determine the storage services and capabilities that are required by virtual machine workloads:
- What data protection service may be required for virtual machines?
- Are capabilities such as encryption at rest, deduplication, or compression required?
- Are different tiers of storage required?
- Identify how storage array capabilities will be discovered:
- Is a VASA provider available to provide awareness of storage capabilities?
- Will tags be used to manually tag datastores based on capabilities?
- Create policies mapping storage capabilities to virtual machine requirements.
- Assign storage policies to virtual machines and virtual machine disks.