You are
used to configure Storage Pofiles on vCenter to make Storage Tiering available
for vCloud Director, but on your recently implementation with vCloud Director
5.5 you figured out the Storage Profiles are not reflecting on vCD anymore.
no matter
how many times you refresh the Storage Policies on vCloud nothing is showing up.
Don’t
worry, it’s by design.
There’s a
slight change on vCloud 5.5 when it’s backed up by a vCenter 5.5.
On these
situations vCloud will use the Storage Policy instead.
Without
further ado, lets see how to set up vCenter 5.5 to reflect the Storage Tiering
on your vCloud 5.5 implementation.
First thing
you need to know is that Storage Policy is based on vendor specific
capabilities (which will need VASA enabled) or Tags.
Personally
I think Tags are useful and enable more flexibility and mix and matches
situations, so let’s see how to create those tags.
- Select
your vCenter, Click on Manager and
then on Tags
- Click on
the small icon with a plus to create a new tag
- Give it a Name and a Category
Now we need
to assign the Tag to the datastore which match it’s characteristics.
- Select Datastores,
- Then click on the specific datastore you want
to assign the Tag
- Click Manage and Tags
- Click on
the second small icon to select the Tag.
On the
example above we can see the datastore has a tag “SAS”.
Next step
is to create the Storage Policy.
- On the
Home of your vCenter click on Storage Policies (see it’s not Storage Profiles
anymore)
- Click on
the Icon to Enable the Policy
- Select
the cluster where would you like to enable Storage Policy and click on Enable
- Click on
the icon to create your Storage Policy
- Give it a
name and click Next
- Click Add tag-based rule
- Select
the Tag you just created and click OK
- You will
see the resources that matched the Tag you selected, click Next
- Click
Finish to create your Storage Policy
We are done !!
Just go
back to vCloud and refresh your Storage Policies and this new one will show up
properly.
Review of
cross functionality
vCloud 5.5
and vCenter 5.1 – Will use Storage Profiles configured on vCenter
vCloud 5.5
and vCenter 5.5 – Will use Storage Policy configured on vCenter.
Now your
Storage Tiering Policy is back in place.
See you
