You can use the vCenter's tagging mechanism to create and associate tags to datastores. The tags are user defined and can have any name and category that the user would define. The tags can then be included in a storage policy to aid in the placement of VMs on them.
Using vCenter tags to define storage capabilities
How to do it...
The following procedure will help you use vCenter tags to create and assign custom capabilities to datastore objects for their use with virtual machine storage policies:
- Connect to the vCenter Server using the web client and use the inventory menu to go to Tags & Custom Attributes:
- In the Tags & Custom Attributes page, go to the Categories tab and click on the icon to create a New...