Cisco UCS Director allows you to manage VMware datastore clusters. You can add, edit and delete datastore
clusters. Once a datastore cluster is added, the following operations are supported in Cisco UCS Director:
• The datastore clusters are available along with datastores during Clone VM, Clone Template and Create
New VM operations. If selected, SDRS recommends the most suited datastore for VM provisioining.
• The datastore clusters can be selected while adding a VMware Storage policy,
Step 1 On the menu bar, chooseVirtual > Storage.
Step 2 In the Storage for All Clouds pane, click the VMWare cloud.
Step 3 Click the Datastore Clusters tab.
Step 4 Click Create.
Step 5 In the Create datastore cluster screen, complete the following fields:
Name Description
Datastore Cluster Name field The name of the datastore cluster
Datacenter Name drop-down list The name of the datacenter
Choose the datastore.
• Check the EnableStorage DRScheckbox to enable
Storage DRS to manage storage resources.
• Check the Enable I/O Metric for SDRS
recommendations for Storage DRS to recommend
the most suitable datastore for VM provisioning.
Datastores drop-down list
Choose the automation level. It can be one of the following:
• Manual -- The placement and migration
recommendationsfrom Storage DRSare not run until
you manually apply the recommendation.
• Fully Automated -- The placement and migration
recommendations from Storage DRS are run
automatically.
Automation Level drop-down list
The range for the valid utilized space. The valid range lies
between 50-100.
Utilzed Space(%) field
The range for the valid latency range. The valid range lies
between 5-100.
I/O Latency(ms) field
