Authoring, renaming, and deletion of storage profiles are performed through vSphere.

Storage profiles can be added, disabled, or removed at the provider virtual datacenter level.

All available storage profiles across selected clusters are listed at provider virtual datacenter creation.

Organization virtual datacenter storage profiles are based on a subset of storage profiles provided by the provider virtual datacenter.

Each organization virtual datacenter has an associated default storage profile.

All virtual machines have an associated storage profile that defaults to the organization virtual datacenter storage profile.

Virtual machine placement is based on storage profiles.

Other entities that support storage profiles:

Templates.

Media.

Independent disks.

OVF storage profiles support:

vSphere does not export storage profile association when exporting a virtual machine to OVF.

vCloud Director template download exports a template virtual machine’s default instantiation profile.

vCloud Director template upload applies OVF-specified template virtual machine’s default instantiation profile.

Disks independent of virtual machine:

Are associated with an organization virtual datacenter storage profile.

Allow selection of datastore to place the disk accounts for storage profile.

Can have their storage profile changed.

Are allowed to be on a different storage profile than the virtual machine to which the disk is attached.

The following are vSphere changes that affect vCloud Director storage profiles:

Changed datastore labels.

Deleted storage profiles.

Changed virtual machine storage profile association.

Virtual machine migration to a new datastore using VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.

Storage profile compliance checks are performed:

When initiated through the REST API.

When automatically performed at set time intervals.

When a storage profile in use by an organization virtual datacenter is deleted in vCenter.

When a virtual machine is migrated using vSphere Storage vMotion.