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New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore

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    Short Description

    Creates VMware cloud storages for tenants replication resources.

    Applies to

    Platform: VMware

    Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

    Requires a VCP license.

    Syntax

    New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore -Datastore <VBRViDatastore> [-StoragePolicy <VBRViStoragePolicy>] -FriendlyName <String> -Quota <Int32> [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [-PipelineVariable <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

    Detailed Description

    This cmdlet creates a VBRViCloudHardwarePlanDatastore object. This object contains a quota of storage resources on the cloud provider datastores and is used further in hardware plans. In the hardware plan, this quota will be presented as a cloud storage to a tenant. This object is used then in the Add-VBRViCloudHardwarePlan cmdlet.

    Parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Required

    Position

    Accept
    Pipeline
    Input

    Accept
    Wildcard
    Characters

    Datastore

    Specifies the cloud provider datastore. This datastore will be used to provide the storage space to a tenant under a hardware plan.

    True

    Named

    False

    False

    Storage
    Policy

    Specifies the VMware storage policy profile. A datastore with matching profiles will be used.

    False

    Named

    False

    False

    Friendly
    Name

    Specifies the name of the storage that will be displayed to the tenant.

    True

    Named

    False

    False

    Quota

    Specifies the amount of disk space you want to provide to a tenant under a hardware plan (Gb).

    True

    Named

    False

    False

    <CommonParameters>

    This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.

    Related Commands

    Find-VBRViDatastore

    Find-VBRViStoragePolicy

    Return Type

    VBRHvCloudHardwarePlanDatastore

    Example

    This example shows how to create a cloud storage on the "Veeam Cloud Datastore" with the following parameters:

    • Friendly name: "Cloud Replicas"
    • Quota: 500 Gb

    To create the cloud storage:

    1. Run Find-VBRViDatastore to get the Veeam Cloud Datastore. Save it to the $datastore variable.
    2. Run New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore using the $datastore variable. Specify the friendly name and the disk space quota. Save the storage to the $cloudreplicas variable.

    PS C:\PS> $datastore = Get-VBRServer -Name "ESXiHost" | Find-VBRViDatastore -Name "Veeam Cloud Datastore"

    PS C:\PS> $cloudreplicas = New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore -Datastore $datastore -FriendlyName "Cloud Replicas" -Quota 500