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Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)
23 Dell EMC SC Series and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes Best Practices | 3161-BP-SC
5 Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)
VM Storage Policies combine with Virtual Volumes to provide a software defined approach to storage
management on a granular per-VM basis. Virtual machines, applications, and services are tied to a VM
Storage Policy during initial deployment or storage migration. In turn, Virtual Volumes are provisioned with
storage capabilities provided by the storage container which support the VM Storage Policy. Compliance
checks are performed throughout the lifecycle of the virtual machine to ensure service level agreements
(SLAs) are being met for the applications and services it provides.
5.1 Capabilities
The VASA 2.0 Provider can report any combination of the following storage container capabilities.
VASA 2.0 Provider reported capabilities
Name
Value
Compression
True or False
Deduplication
True or False
Encryption
True or False
SnapshotCapable
True or False
ScStorageProfile
List of available SC Series storage profiles
5.2 Creating a VM storage policy
In the following example, a new VM storage policy is created with two storage capability requirements:
1. Choose the com.dell.storagecenter VASA 2.0 Provider.
2. Select the Recommend (All Tiers) storage profile, meaning that data is initially ingested into an
upper performance tier and migrated to a lower tier when it becomes inactive.
3. Select Yes to make sure the Virtual Volume(s) are snapshot capable.
Creating a new VM storage policy
During initial deployment or storage migration of a virtual machine, this policy can be used for guidance and
maintaining of compliance.