Imagine we have 100 VMs with VMDKs attached to a vSAN Default Storage Policy (RAID-1) and we want 20 VMs to move to a new FTT=0 Stripe-3 storage policy. We can create a new policy and apply it to VMs one by one. It may be a reasonable approach not to change it for all 20 of them at once…but if in vSAN 6.7U3 VMDKs are finally processed in batches, we could give it a try 😉
So the trick is simple. We go to the VM folder on the Cluster level and use Shift to select desirable number of VMs. Obvious, isn’t it?
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There is one caveat though – we will not be able to select SPBMs on VMDK level, storage policy will be applied for all of the selected VMs for all of their VMDKs.
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And than we can wait and observe our resync dashboard.
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