VM storage profiles are a way of categorizing storage based on the type/capability of the storage. For example, LUNs thin provisioned, wherein Thin Provisioned Volume, being a capability, can be categorized so that VMs running applications that do not demand first-write performance can be placed on these datastores. The first-write performance could be impacted on a thin provisioned volume because the volume should be increased in size before the data is first written to it.
In this recipe we will learn how to create a VM storage profile by using the System Storage Profiles and User-defined Storage Profiles.
The following procedure explains how to create VM storage profiles. For the sake of demonstration we will create two VM storage profiles, one for a system storage profile: and the other for the user-defined storage profile.
From the inventory Home, click on VM Storage Profiles, which should take you to the storage profiles administration...