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VASA Provider: New VM creation fails when storage capability profile used does not match backing storage

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 9.10
  • ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 9.11

Issue

To illustrate this issue:

  1. We have a vVol datastore called NFS_VVOL_01 with an assigned backing flexvol that has a Storage Capability Profile (SCP) of "Bronze":

VASA Provider

2. We then attempt to create a new virtual machine (VM) using a VM Storage Policy based off of a different SCP:

VM Storage Policy

3. The VM creation fails:

VM creation fails

4. The storage capabilies of the SCP assigned to the datastore's backing flexvol and the one used during new VM creation are identical:

SCP assigned

 

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