Exclude datastore from forecasting/capacity

[vmCalgary]

Our environment has a datastore that is mounted in every cluster and is used for OVAs, firmware, templates, and the like; ie: not VMs.

vROPs add the capacity for this datastore to total capacity available in the clusters, Whatif, and other forecasting done by vROPs.

The 'Virtual Machine Remaining' number is incorrect as vrops is adding in the capacity of our template datastore.

How do I get vrops to ignore this particular datastore? I went into Inventory and put the datastore into maintenance but that only stops metrics from being gathered.

[FredGSanford]

This doesn't answer your question, but is similar.  Compute Cluster Total disk space includes NFS, Template, etc, datastores that are not used for VM placement.  This super metric includes only datastores that are used by VMs.

Object type = compute cluster resource

floor(sum(${adaptertype=VMWARE, objecttype=Datastore, metric=capacity|total_capacity, depth=2, where= (${RESOURCE_NAME} startsWith 'HPEDatastore' || ${RESOURCE_NAME} startsWith 'EMCDatastore') })/1024)