Deleting a Virtual Machine Storage Policy

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

If you are not planning to use a storage policy, you can delete it.

You cannot delete the VVols No Requirement Policy and vSAN Default Policy.

Environment

vSphere Versions:
6.7
7.X
8.X

Cause

Customer has too many storage policies and wants to get rid of some of them.

• If the policy you want to delete is used as the default, disassociate it from the datastore. See Change the Default Storage Policy for a Datastore.
• If the policy is used by a virtual machine, change the VM policy assignment. See Change Storage Policy Assignment for Virtual Machine Files and Disks.

 

Resolution

1. From the vSphere Web Client Home, click Policies and Profiles > VM Storage Policies.
2. Click the VM Storage Policies tab.
3. Select the policy to delete and click the Delete icon.
   You can select multiple policies.
4. Click Yes to confirm your action.