VM Storage Policy

[Knothead00]

In reference to creating a VM Storage policy and Storage Compatibility what is the rules for what is valid and not ?

What allows a datastore to be compatible as opposed to incompatible?

[TheBobkin]

@Knothead00 Any policy rule that would make a vsanDatastore unable to place an object with those rules in a compliant manner.

Example:

Can't place RAID5 object on a Hybrid cluster.

Can't place RAID5 object on an All-Flash cluster which only had 3 nodes (as needs minimum of 4).

Can't place RAID5/6 if cluster only had a vSAN Standard license.

Same goes for everything else that requires X amount of nodes or FDs or nodes per FD, encryption, dedupe-enabled l, number of disks to satisfy stripe-width etc. .

[depping]

Also, a policy which is for instance vvols based would make the vsandatastore  incompatible. 

[filipe_dias]

It´s crucial for manage resources