How to change VxRail w/ vSAN 6.7 U3 storage policy for entire VM or each object individually.

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I was recently asked for a quick way to edit all and individual objects in vSAN 6.7 U3.  I thought I would put together a quick how to for quick storage policy changes.

**Remember, certain changes in storage policies will trigger a resync on the backend, IE changing RAID types.

Step by Step:

Right click on the VM you want to edit

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Guest OS 
Snapshots 
Open Remote Console 
Migrate.. 
Clone 
Fault Tolerance 
VM POIiCies 
Template 
Compatibility 
Export System Logs... 
Tags 
Assigned Tag 
Edit VM Storage Policies... 
Check VM Storage Policy Compliance 
Reapply VM Storage Policy 
VM Storaae Policies 
Cate

Go to VM Policies > Edit VM Storage Policies

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Edit VM Storage Policies 
daldrspm03 
VM storage policy: Datastore Default 
Total vSAN storage consumption: 42.22 GB storage space 
-Prod-VSAN 
-Prod-VSAN 
-Prod-VSAN 
-Prod-VSAN 
Name 
VM home 
Hard disk 1 
Hard disk 2 
Hard disk 3 
Disk Size 
40 Ga 
Data store 
VxRail 
VxRail 
VxRail 
VxRail 
-Non 
-Non 
-Non 
-Non 
-Datastore 
-Datastore 
-Datastore 
-Datastore 
Configure per disk 
Datastore Type 
vsan 
vsan 
vsan 
vsan 
4 items 
CANCEL

If you want to change the policy on all the objects associated with the VM then click the drop down tab next to VM storage policy and select the desire storage policy

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Edit VM Storage Policies 
daldrspm03 
Total vSAN storage consumption: 42.22 GB storage space 
Name 
VM home 
Hard disk 1 
Hard disk 2 
Hard disk 3 
Disk Size 
40 Ga 
VM Storage Policy 
Datastore Default 
Datastore Default 
Datastore Default 
Datastore Default 
Datastore 
VxRaiI 
VxRaiI 
VxRaiI 
VxRaiI 
Configure per disk 
Datastore Type 
vsan 
vsan 
vsan 
vsan 
4 items 
CANCEL

You have the ability to change each objects storage policy and apply.

Summary:
I am really enjoying the new 6.7 U3 interface.  It is making life a lot cleaner and simpler.  As always, I hope y’all found this useful.

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