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View Existing Storage Capabilities in the vSphere Web Client
Before you add your storage capabilities, you can view system-defined storage capabilities that your storage
system reports.
Prerequisites
To be able to report system-defined storage capabilities, your storage system must support Storage APIs -
Storage Awareness.
Procedure
1 From the vSphere Web Client Home, click Rules and Profiles > VM Storage Profiles.
2 Click the Create, Edit or Remove Storage Capabilities icon.
3 View system-defined capabilities reported by your storage.
What to do next
You can add, edit, or remove user-defined storage capabilities. You cannot modify system-defined capabilities.
Add a User-Defined Storage Capability in the vSphere Client
You can create a storage capability and assign it to a datastore to indicate the capabilities that this datastore
has.
Procedure
1 In the VM Storage Profiles view of the vSphere Client, click Manage Storage Capabilities.
The Manage Storage Capabilities dialog box appears.
2 Click Add.
3 Provide a name and a description for the storage capability.
Storage Capability Property Example
Name Fault tolerance.
Description Storage that has a capacity over 2TB and is fault-tolerant.
4 Click OK.
The storage capability appears in the list and is specified as User-defined in the Type column.
What to do next
Assign the user-defined storage capabilities to datastores that have that capability.
Add a User-Defined Storage Capability in the vSphere Web Client
You can create a specific storage capability and then later assign it to a datastore to indicate the capabilities
that this datastore has.
Procedure
1 From the vSphere Web Client Home, click Rules and Profiles > VM Storage Profiles.
2 Click the Create, Edit or Remove Storage Capabilities icon.
The Manage Storage Capabilities panel opens.
3 Click the add icon.
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