How to Retrieve and reconfigure FCD catalog's profile on vSAN datastore

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

This article provides the details to query/change the default policy of the FCD catalog.

FCD catalog is always present in a datastore. In case of vSAN datastore, it is an additional namespace/object.

By default, FCD catalog gets created with vSAN default policy on vSAN datastore with FTT as 1.

Resolution

The APIs are present from 6.7 & onwards

Workaround:

1. Determine the profile associated with a catalog, API  "RetrieveVStorageInfrastructureObjectPolicy" of VStorageObjectManager, which retrieves virtual storage infrastructure object SBPM policy on given vSAN datastore.
   
   
2. Update the profile,  API "updateVStorageInfrastructureObjectPolicy" of VStorageObjectManager which assigns specified SBPM policy to the given virtual storage infrastructure object. "Only support vSAN datastore".
   
   Note: "updateVStorageInfrastructureObjectPolicy" -- will update the policy of  every object present in a vSAN datastore.
   As of now, there's no way to update the policy of a single object