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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Modifying existing storage policies


Throughout the course of administering your vSphere/VSAN infrastructure, you may find that you wish to change a storage policy and the VMs associated with it. For example, you may want to change the amount of a VM that is thick-provisioned, or you may want to modify a policy so that it uses more stripes or provides a greater degree of fault tolerance.

By modifying an existing policy, you will cause these changes to cascade down to all VMs or VM disks that use the policy; thus, affecting many changes at once.

Getting ready

You should be logged into vSphere Web Client as an administrator or a user authorized to modify VM storage policies and VMs.

How to do it…

  1. From vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | VM Storage Policies.

  2. Highlight the policy that you wish to modify, and then click the Edit button:

  3. If you wish to modify the name or description, please do so, and then click Rule-Set 1.

  4. Add the capability that you wish to use or modify one of the existing settings...