AppVolume and Storage Policy

[MasergyTX]

i will like to know, if there is a way to assign a Storage Policy to a vmdk of a AppStack. That way, we can use caching engines to accelerate this applications.

[Lakshman]

If you are using vSAN, the default storage policy (FTT=1) applies to all AppStacks. To modify the FTT for an AppStack, you can create a new storage policy.

Please refer to the App Volumes and vSAN reference document (Page 40).

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-6-view-vi...

[techguy129]

From my experience, I tried this route before and ran into issues controlling which policies my AppStacks were using. If you define a policy and don't change it, it may work for you. Any changes to the polices would require you to mount the appstack to poweroff VM again and apply the policies.

I had a lengthy conversation with Support and they agree that there is not good method to managing these policies. The support team was working on some scripts to better manage and apply the policies but I never followed up.