We all get in a hurry. When we get in a hurry we make mistakes. The following scenario has been played out plenty of times in a virtual infrastructure.
- VM Administrator gets a request for a new VM to be deployed ASAP, which usually means yesterday.
- VM Administrator looks through multiple datastores to determine a datastore with a sufficient amount of capacity.
- VM Administrator picks the datastore and deploys the VM.
What if this particular VM was a database server and the log volume needed to be provisioned on a RAID1/10 datastore. Hopefully the datastores are named with the RAID level in the naming convention. But, what if they are not? Even if they are, it can be very tedious to wade through multiple datastores to find an appropriate datastore that meets both capacity and performance requirements. What if there was a way to “tag” certain datastores with characteristics that are meaningful to the VM administrator? That’s where the new “Profile-Driven Storage” feature comes in with vSphere 5.
Profile-Driven …
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