topic Re: VM Provisioning - Datastore Selection in HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software

VM Provisioning - Datastore Selection

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:26:28 GMT

Hi,
While defining catalog, datastore selection choose was “Auto”.
If, i have N number of datastores active, how the respective datastore get selected for VM provisioning. What checks it follows to choose right datastore?

In my environment i found that 99% vm got provisioned on first datastore in list and only 1% vm got provisioned on other available datastores in list.

Note - I am not using Datastore cluster.

Re: VM Provisioning - Datastore Selection

cbunge — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:31:58 GMT

This is partially covered here.

Essentially, we’re looking at a map and selecting the first disk in an array sorted by the most available space. If you would like true storage DRS, the best option is using native datastore clusters.

It could be worth creating an Idea in the forums have some sort of balancing or round robin occur.