Balancing VDI storage during provisioning

[meghaj2017]

Storage rebalance helps to balance the Linked Clones across Datastores post provisioning. However I'm trying to control the Linked clone distribution on a specific Datastore during new vdi provisioning. I know its not availalbe out of the box., so here's what I'm thinking:

1. To the pool, add new DS1 count of vdis say #4. Enable provisioning.

2. Post completion, remove DS1 from vcenter setttings and add DS2, increase count to 8. Enable provisioning

This way it would ensure that 4 VDIs are created per datastore ie 1 replica mapped evenly to 4 VDIs.

Any reason why this should not work?

[KyranBrophy]

Yes this will work.

Horizon should balance the datastores during provisioning as well, but if you want VM's 01-04 on DS1 and VM's 05-08 on DS2 then your process will meet that requirement. Remember, if you don't add DS1 back in to the pool's datastores then any further machines you provision will only create on DS2, which may ruin your balancing work and over subscribing the datastore.