I'm going to open a SR to ask for an official stance on this but in the meantime...
Did we get to the bottom of this? In the past (i.e. vCD 8.x) we tagged both datastores and datastore clusters and we could see both in vCD - happy days.
Now, I'm using vCD 9.7 and when creating a new Provider VDC under the Add Storage window, I can only see storage policies that correspond to datastores that are NOT in any datastore cluster. It doesn't see any datastores that are part of a datastore cluster - exactly what the OP mentions.
The other question is around SDRS settings and whether they are compatible with vCD. For example, assuming we have a number of datastores in a datastore cluster:
- Can we enable anti-affinity for VMDKs and thus when vCD creates VMs, the system will automatically place VMDKs on separate backend datastores?
- What mechanism chooses which datastore to provision VM disks on? Is it vCD or does vCD just call vCenter API and let SDRS choose?
- If SDRS migrates a VMDK from one datastore to another (or is done manually to balance space), will this be picked up by vCD when viewing VM properties as a vCD admin as per the following screenshot (apologies since most of it is blurred out).
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