vSphere with Tanzu using NSX-T - Part6 - Create tag, VM storage policy, and content library

In the previous posts we discussed the following: 

Part1: Prerequisites

Part2: Configure NSX-T

Part3: Edge Cluster

Part4: Tier-0 Gateway and BGP peering

Part5: Tier-1 Gateway and Segments

At this stage, we are almost done with the networking/ NSX-T related prerequisites. Before getting into Workload Management configuration we need to create a tag, assign the tag to the datastore, create a VM storage policy, and content library.

Create and assign a tag

• Select the datastore. Click Assign.

• Add Tag.

• Provide a name, and click on create new category.

• Provide a category name and click create.

• Click create.

• Now a tag is created and you can assign it to the vSAN datastore.

• Select the tag and click assign.

Create VM storage policy with tag based placement

• Provide a name and click next.

• Select tag based placement and click next.

• Click the drop-down for tag category, select "Tanzu", and then click browse tags, select "Tanzu" and click next.

• Select the compatible datastore, vSAN in this case, and click next.

• Click finish.

• You can now see the newly created VM storage policy.

Create content library

• Click create.

• Provide details and next.

• Provide subscription URL and next.

• Accept the SSL thumbprint by clicking yes. Select the vSAN datastore as the storage location for library contents, and next.

• Click finish.

• You can now see the newly created content library.

All the prerequisites are done now. The next step is to configure workload management which will be covered in the next part. Hope it was useful. Cheers!