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Now that the preparation work is complete, you can perform the following steps to create a
user-dei ned storage capability:
1. In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to the Home screen and click the VM Storage Policies
icon, shown in Figure 6.28.
Figure 6.28
h e VM Storage
Policies area in the
vSphere Web Client
is one place to create
user-defi ned stor-
age capabilities. You
can also create them
from the Datastores
And Datastore
Clusters view.
2. In the VM Storage Policies screen, click the Create A New VM Storage Policy icon.
This will bring up the Create A New VM Storage Policy dialog box.
3. Provide a name and description for the new VM storage policy and click Next.
4. The Rule-Sets explanation is displayed, Click Next to go to the rule creation page.
5. Click the Add Tag-Based Rule button, and choose the tag category and the tag associated
with the datastores; then click OK.
Multiple tags can be added to a single rule-set and multiple rule-sets can be added to a
storage policy.
6. Click Next to i nish the rule-set creation and verify the matching resources on the follow-
ing page.
7. Finally, click Next and Finish to exit the Create New VM Storage Policy dialog box.
Figure 6.29 shows a number of a user-dei ned storage policies.
Any system-provided storage capabilities supplied by VASA will also show up in the Rule-
Set page on the Create New VM Storage Policy dialog box. These can be substituted by user-
created tags as needed.
You'll come back to the VM Storage Policies area of the vSphere Web Client later in this chap-
ter when we show you how to create a VM storage policy and assign it to a VM.
Now that we've covered some vSphere-specii c storage basics, let's move on to working with
VMFS datastores.
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