Associate a Storage Policy with a Virtual Machine and Its Hard Disk

You can associate a storage policy with a virtual machine and its hard disk and check if they are compliant with the policy.

Prerequisites

■	Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.
■	Verify that a storage policy named `Str-Policy` exists in the vCenter Server environment.
■	Verify that a virtual machine named `Target-VM` exists in the vCenter Server environment.

Procedure

$policy = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'Str-Policy'
$vm = Get-VM -Name 'Target-VM'
$hd = Get-HardDisk -VM $vm
Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $hd -StoragePolicy $policy
Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $hd

1	Get the `Str-Policy` storage policy and store it in the `$policy` variable. $policy = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'Str-Policy'
2	Get the `Target-VM` virtual machine and store it in the `$vm` variable. $vm = Get-VM -Name 'Target-VM'
3	Get the hard disk associated with the `$vm` virtual machine and store it in the `$hd` variable. $hd = Get-HardDisk -VM $vm
4	Assign the `$policy` storage policy to the `$vm` virtual machine and the `$hd` hard disk. Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $hd -StoragePolicy $policy
5	View the `$policy` storage policy's compliance with the `$vm` virtual machine and the `$hd` hard disk. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $hd Note The storage policy can be compliant only if the datastore on which the virtual machine and hard disk are created is compliant with the storage policy.