topic Black list vmware datastore in HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software

Black list vmware datastore

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:17:23 GMT

Hello,
I use auto datastore to install VM , but, there is a use case where a backup tool create an nfs mounted temporary datastore. If i want to create a VM while such a datastore exists, it is auto-selected, and my deployment crashes.
What is the best way to work around that behaviour ?

I wanted to create a task in a preconfiguration phase that will auto select the datastore by itself, with its own criterias
An other way would be to play with groups, but it would be to complicate

what’s your opinion ?

regards,

Matthieu

Re: Black list vmware datastore

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:38:31 GMT

You could schedule the task to run at a short interval or Config phase would be a viable option in that case.

Re: Black list vmware datastore

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:15:21 GMT

Thank you for your response.
The problem of these methods is that cohesity datastores are dynamicaly created. I can’t disable them, then.

Re: Black list vmware datastore

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:46:57 GMT

Thank you @aabraham .
I had a discussion with the vmware PO on our side, and it appears that this particular case will be quite rare, so that this “bug” in our vm creation workflow is depriotirized.
I will create a configuration script if needeed , in that case. Thank you for your help

Re: Black list vmware datastore

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:45:02 GMT

You can

Manually deactivate the nfs datastore in cloud details page. Auto-datastore wont pick up the datastore.
schedule a task in job to deactivate datastores of type nfs in vmware clouds