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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Assigning VM storage policies

As indicated in the previous recipe, you can assign/edit VM storage policies to/of existing virtual machines. This will help associate virtual machines with desired storage tiers.

Note

The policy can be applied even to the virtual machines home directory, in case you want virtual disks to be stored in a different storage tier.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to edit the VM storage policies of a VM:

Connect to the vCenter Server using the web client and switch to the Host and Clusters view using the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 2 (since this activity is performed on a VM, you can use the VMs and Templates view as well, using the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 3).
Right-click on the desired VM and navigate to VM Policies and Edit VM Storage Policies...:

In the Edit VM Storage Policies window, choose a VM storage policy to apply to all the associated files or assign individual VM storage policies to each of the items. Click OK to confirm the settings...