To get started, click on the main vSphere menu and pick Policies and Profiles.
Select the 2nd option down, VM Storage Policies and then Create VM Storage Policy.
In the spawned wizard, first select the vCenter server you want to use (if using Linked-Mode) and then provide a Name for the SPBM policy.
A key differentiator for using vVols with SPBM instead of VMFS is that vVols enables directly imports information and available capabilities from the underlying FlashArray which can then be included or excluded for a given policy. To use this, select the Enable rules for "com.purestorage.story.policy" storage option and then click Next.
Probably the simplest rule to implement is to only allow VMs and persistent volumes using this policy to be placed on a FlashArray. This is shown in the below Placement tab example. An optional additional rule can be added here to use a specific FlashArray registered against the vCenter instance with the Everpure vSphere plugin.
Under the Replication tab we can see that there are a multitude of rules that can be used to craft a policy specific to features like whether replication is enabled, replication interval as well as local snapshot Protection Groups on the FlashArray. Multiple rules can be added by using the Add Rule button.
Lastly if a vVol datastore has a tag assigned to it from vCenter as shown in the next section of this KB, tag-based placement rules can be setup by selecting the Tags tab and selecting the appropriate tag. Note that using Tags is completely optional for building SPBM with vVols.
In the below example we can see that a single vVol datastore meets the criteria we set in the previous steps. If this is as desired, click on the Next button, if it is not then adjust the policy rules accordingly from the previous step.
Review and select Finish to create the SPBM policy.
As mentioned earlier, a vVol datastore can optionally be tagged within vCenter via the following procedure if using vCenter-based tagging is desired. This next section will cover how create a vSphere Category and Tag first below.