Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers

1 Create datastore tiers
2 Set access to tier service levels for datastores
3 Allow a tenant to use datastore tiers in a datacenter
4 Edit a datastore tier and add multiple datastores

This section describes how to manage datastore tiers to offer storage service levels in private cloud datacenters. To create combine storage service levels across the cloud to set cloud storage limits for tenants, use abstract datastore tiers.
For details of how to create policy with datastore tiers, see Manage datastore storage policies
For a general introduction, see About datastore tiers and About abstract datastore tiers

Create datastore tiers

To create a datastore tier:

Privileges: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage storage elements

Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select a datacenter and go to Datastore tiers
Click the + add button
Enter the Name and Description
Optionally, select an Abstract datastore tier to add the tier to a group to control storage service levels for tenants in more than one datacenter. See Manage datastore storage policies
Click Save

The platform will create the tier and allow access to all future enterprises that you create.

Set access to tier service levels for datastores

This section describes how to define access to datastore tiers.

When you create a datastore tier, by default the platform will allow access to the current enterprise only.

To allow access to different service levels you can set access for these levels:

all enterprises
enterprises in a datacenter

To modify enterprise access for all enterprises:

To modify enterprise access for all enterprises,
Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select a datacenter and go to Datastore tiers
Create or edit datastore tier and go to Enterprise access
Select Allow all enterprises or Restrict all enterprises

Changes here will override the settings defined for an individual enterprise
You cannot restrict the access of enterprises that have already created disks in the tier

Set access to a datastore tier

To display a list of enterprises that currently have access to a datastore tier:

To modify enterprise access for all enterprises,
Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select a datacenter and go to Datastore tiers
Create or edit datastore tier and go to Enterprise access
Click Cancel or select Do not change enterprise access
Display a list of all enterprises with access

Allow a tenant to use datastore tiers in a datacenter

You can control access to datastore service levels with datastore tiers.

To allow or prohibit access to a datastore tier for an individual enterprise

Go to Users and edit an enterprise
Go to Datacenters and edit an allowed datacenter
Go to Datastore tiers
Drag datastore tiers to the Allowed or Prohibited lists for this enterprise
Click Accept to save the Enterprise datacenter resources

You can also set limits for the tenant for the datastore tiers within each datacenter. See Configure an enterprise in a cloud location

Edit a datastore tier and add multiple datastores

You can edit a datastore tier and select multiple hypervisor datastores to add them to this service level.

To add multiple datastores to a tier:

Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select a datacenter and go to Datastore tiers
Select a datastore tier
In the Datastores pane on the right, click the + add button
From the popup list, select the datastores to add
Click Add

You can also add datastore tiers to services levels when you create or edit a hypervisor. See Compute in datacenters