Change Storage Profile (SPBM) policy and apply to both home and vmdks

[vsantester]

Hi there, I need to change the storage policy on a cluster worth of VMs. I've been following vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 SPBM Walkthrough (Part 1): Introduction | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs, specifically running this:

Get-Cluster "MyCluster" | Get-VM "myvm.local" | Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration -StoragePolicy "VSAN-FTT=1"

This applies the new Storage Profile policy to the "home" folder of the VM, but ignores the vmdks, hence the VM fails to comply with the policy. How can I make it so that it changes the home and all vmdks on the VM to the policy I'm specifying.

Thanks in advance,

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

You will have to set the storage policy on the hard disks as well in an extra command, for example:

$vm = Get-Cluster "MyCluster" | Get-VM "myvm.local"

$hd = Get-HardDisk -VM $vm

$vm | Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration -StoragePolicy "VSAN-FTT=1"

$hd | Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration -StoragePolicy "VSAN-FTT=1"

[vsantester]

Awesome, that works great. Thanks.

[PiotrBerent]

I need to dig that post out.

How to set with powercli this toogle switch from GUI "Configure per disk" - since setting both (for VM Home, and Disks) is ok, but newly added disk will not have this policy.