Create a Virtual Machine in a Datastore Compatible with Storage Policy

You can retrieve a datastore compatible with storage policy and create a virtual machine in the datastore.

Prerequisites

■	Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.
■	Verify that a tag-based storage policy named `Tag-Policy` exists in the vCenter Server environment.
■	Verify that the tag of the `Tag-Policy` storage policy is associated with one of the available datastores in the vCenter Server environment.

Procedure

$policy = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'Tag-Policy'
$tag = ($($($policy.AnyOfRulesets).AllOfRules).AnyOfTags)[0]
$ds = Get-SpbmCompatibleStorage -StoragePolicy $policy
$vmHost = Get-VMHost -Datastore $ds
$vm = New-VM -Name 'VM-Tag' -ResourcePool $vmHost -Datastore $ds -NumCPU 2 -MemoryGB 4 -DiskMB 1
Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm -StoragePolicy $policy
Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm
$tagAs = Get-TagAssignment -Entity $ds
Remove-TagAssignment -TagAssignment $tagAs
Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm

1	Get the tag-based `Tag-Policy` storage policy and store it in the `$policy` variable. $policy = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'Tag-Policy'
2	Get the tag used in the `Tag-Policy` storage policy and store it in the `$tag` variable. $tag = ($($($policy.AnyOfRulesets).AllOfRules).AnyOfTags)[0]
3	Get a datastore compatible with the `$policy` storage policy and store it in the `$ds` variable. $ds = Get-SpbmCompatibleStorage -StoragePolicy $policy
4	Get the virtual machine host that contains the `$ds` datastore and store it in the `$vmhost` variable. $vmHost = Get-VMHost -Datastore $ds
5	Create a virtual machine named `VM-Tag` in the `$ds` datastore and store the virtual machine object in the `$vm` variable. $vm = New-VM -Name 'VM-Tag' -ResourcePool $vmHost -Datastore $ds -NumCPU 2 -MemoryGB 4 -DiskMB 1
6	Associate the `$policy` storage policy with the `$vm` virtual machine. Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm -StoragePolicy $policy
7	Verify that the `$vm` virtual machine is compliant with the `$policy` storage policy. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm The status should be `Compliant`.
8	Get the `Tag-Assignment` object for the `$ds` datastore and store it in the `$tagAs` variable. $tagAs = Get-TagAssignment -Entity $ds
9	Remove the `$tag` tag association from the `$ds` datastore. Remove-TagAssignment -TagAssignment $tagAs
10	Check the compliance of the `$vm` virtual machine with the `$policy` storage policy. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm The status should be `NonCompliant`.