I can't find any option to set disk shares or limit IOPs under VM settings > Virtual Hardware > Hard Disk
And it doesn't matter if I created a new VM or not.
Anyone knows if this feature was deprecated, or I am doing something wrong ?
On one hand, the feature Doc doesn't have a version 8.0 option in the drop-down menu, only 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0.
But on the other hand the feature is mentioned in "Virtual Disk Configuration" Doc for version 8.0.
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It looks like Disk Shares are now preferred to be managed by VM Storage Policies leveraging Storage Policy Components
When you go and create/update VM Storage Policy and wish to incorporate Shares (whether its custom or the OOTB options), you need to select "Enable host based rules" and under Storage I/O Control, you can then select from one of the Storage Policy Components
I suspect, this would influences the individual disk shares that you would have set, but provides a more global and scalable way versus manually tweaking each VMDK, which should still be possible using the vSphere API, but I suspect is shares configuration in UI was removed in 8.x
It looks like Disk Shares are now preferred to be managed by VM Storage Policies leveraging Storage Policy Components
When you go and create/update VM Storage Policy and wish to incorporate Shares (whether its custom or the OOTB options), you need to select "Enable host based rules" and under Storage I/O Control, you can then select from one of the Storage Policy Components
I suspect, this would influences the individual disk shares that you would have set, but provides a more global and scalable way versus manually tweaking each VMDK, which should still be possible using the vSphere API, but I suspect is shares configuration in UI was removed in 8.x