Unable to configure 'Shares' and/or 'Limit - IOPs' in vSphere Client after upgrading to vSphere 8.0

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

• vSphere 8.0 vSphere Client does not provide the 'Shares' and 'Limit - IOPs' configuration options available in VM Edit Settings.

 

• vSphere 7.0U3 example:

• vSphere 8.0U3 example:

Environment

vSphere 8.0

Cause

vSphere UI behavior change in vSphere 8.0.

Resolution

Use VM Storage Policy.
Create a VM Storage Policy for Host-Based Data Services

If you enable host-based rules in “2. Policy structure”, you can configure IOPS limits and IOPS shares in the Storage I/O Control tab in “3. Host-based services”. 

In addition to custom configuration, you can also specify the storage policy component here.

Additional Information

Storage I/O control settings from a storage policy are not shown correctly in vSphere Client and ESXi host client when creating a new virtual disk or migrating an existing one to a different datastore

vSphere UI behavior change for VM Disk I/O Shares & Limits in vSphere 8.x