Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/vmdk-storage-policy-volume-type.

Description:

VMware VMDK cinder driver in havana lets users create a volume as a vmdk on a VC datastore and attach / detach it to a running VMware VM instance. The user could associate a vmware:vmdk_type or vmware:clone_type through a volume-type for such volumes. This blueprint is to add the ability to associate a VM Storage Policy through a volume-type to a vmdk volume. The vmdk driver would place such volumes only a datastore that matches the associated storage policy. With this change a storage admin will create VM storage policies through a VC client and expose them as cinder volume-type, one volume-type for each VM storage policy to be exposed to cinder volumes. The end user will be able to create volumes by picking a volume type and the vmdk cinder driver will associate the corresponding VM storage policy with these volumes.

Specification URL (additional information):

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