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Managing storage using storage policy-based management

Storage policy-based management is the foundation for new software-defined storage. In VSAN environment, control is not at the storage end; it is at the VM end. All the policies are applied on a per VM basis and decide different aspects of the storage for the VM.

The cmdlets available under this category can be subdivided into different categories, as discussed in the following sections.

Cmdlets related to policy rules

The cmdlets related to policy rules are used to set the Rule or Ruleset:

• New-SpbmRule
• New-SpbmRuleSet

Cmdlets related to storage policy

The cmdlets related to storage policy are used to define different aspects of storage policy:

• New-SpbmStoragePolicy
• Remove-SpbmStoragePolicy
• Set-SpbmStoragePolicy ...