VCP550 · Question #44
An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error. Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being deleted? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. A virtual machine. B. A virtual disk.. vSphere prevents deletion of a Storage Policy that is actively assigned to a virtual machine or a virtual disk, enforcing referential integrity in Storage Policy-Based Management.
Question
An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error. Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being deleted? (Choose two.)
Options
- AA virtual machine.
- BA virtual disk.
- CA datastore.
- DA datastore cluster.
How the community answered
(14 responses)- A79% (11)
- C14% (2)
- D7% (1)
Why each option
vSphere prevents deletion of a Storage Policy that is actively assigned to a virtual machine or a virtual disk, enforcing referential integrity in Storage Policy-Based Management.
A Storage Policy assigned to a virtual machine's home object (which governs placement of its configuration files) is actively consumed, and vSphere blocks deletion of any policy still referenced by a VM to prevent orphaned policy assignments.
A Storage Policy assigned to a virtual disk (VMDK) is also an active association, and the same referential integrity enforcement prevents the policy from being deleted until it is removed or reassigned from all virtual disks using it.
Datastores are not direct consumers of Storage Policies in vSphere; Storage Policy-Based Management governs VM and virtual disk placement onto datastores, but datastores themselves are not assigned policies.
Datastore clusters are also not assigned Storage Policies; they are targets for placement decisions driven by policies applied to VMs and virtual disks, not policy holders themselves.
Concept tested: Storage Policy-Based Management deletion blocked by active VM and disk assignments
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-89091D59-D844-46B2-94C2-35A3961D23E8.html
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