New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore

Short Description

Creates VMware cloud storage for tenants replication resources.

Applies to

Platform: VMware

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Requires a VCP license.

Syntax

New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore -Datastore <VBRViDatastore> [-StoragePolicy <VBRViStoragePolicy>] -FriendlyName <String> -Quota <Int32>   [<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

Type

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Datastore

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

Accepts the VBRViDatastoreBase object. To get this object, run the Find-VBRViDatastore cmdlet.

True

Named

False

StoragePolicy

Specifies the VMware storage policy profile. The cmdlet will use datastores with this policy profile.

Note: If you specify the parameter value as null, the storage policy profile is reset to the default one.

Accepts the VBRViStoragePolicy object. To get this object, run the Find-VBRViStoragePolicy cmdlet.

False

Named

False

FriendlyName

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

String

True

Named

False

Quota

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

Int32

True

Named

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

VBRViCloudHardwarePlanDatastore

Examples

Creating Cloud Storage for Selected Datastore

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

  • Friendly name: Cloud Replicas
  • Quota: 500 Gb

$datastore = Get-VBRServer -Name "ESXiHost" | Find-VBRViDatastore -Name "Veeam Cloud Datastore"

$cloudreplicas = New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore -Datastore $datastore -FriendlyName "Cloud Replicas" -Quota 500

Perform the following steps:

  1. To get the Veeam Cloud Datastore:
  • Run the Get-VBRServer cmdlet. Specify the Name parameter value.
  • Pipe the cmdlet output to the Find-VBRViDatastore cmdlet. Specify the Name parameter value.
  • Save the result to the $datastore variable.
  1. Run the New-VBRViCloudHWPlanDatastore cmdlet. Specify the following settings:
  • Set the $datastore variable as the Datastore parameter value.
  • Specify the FriendlyName parameter value.
  • Specify the Quota parameter value.
  • Save the result to the $cloudreplicas variable.

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