Support For DataStoreClusters

[tonyturino]

Is there support for DataStoreClusters? Using DataStores only eliminates a lot of functionality and flexibility that is built into vSphere.

[bradwilliamson]

I am looking into this. It appears in the vSphere API RecommendDatastores() and ApplyStorageDrsRecommendation_Task() will accomplish this. The API refers to datastore clusters as "Storage Pods". When you specify a method (create, clone, relocation, reconfigure) for the CloneVM_Task(). The method generates a recommendation on where to place the VM which is the same thing you see in the vSphere client. To perform actually provisioning/cloning of the VM it has to call the ApplyStorageDrsRecommendation_Task() which will then accept the recommendation ID. I believe the RecommendDatastores() will return multiple recommendations in an array. The first one is the best choice.

[Brunzer]

@bradwilliamson Has there been any further progress on this? It would be greatly beneficial to get support for using datastore clusters rather than having to explicitly assign to a specific datastore.

[jjasghar]

@Brunzer we have moved development over to https://github.com/chef-partners/chef-provisioning-vsphere and we are doing our best to maintain it now.

Can you put in an issue there to track this? Use case and maybe we can get some more eyes on.

[Brunzer]

thanks @jjasghar. I saw that there's already an issue open in that repo for this as well. I just commented on it to reference this one as well.