Deploying a new VM to a local datastore

When provisioning a new VM to a local datastore (in contrast to a shared datastore), you must edit the providers.json file on the Platform Manager (OSGi) server.

1. Log in to the computer where you installed the Platform Manager product.
2. Open the providers.json file in a text editor.
    By default, you can find the providers.json file in the BMCInstallSoftware\BMCCloudLifeCycleManagement\Platform_Manager\configuration folder.

3. Change the USE_LOCAL_DATASTORE attribute value from false (the default) to true. 

   
   },
      "attributeValue" : "true",
      "cloudClass" : "com.bmc.cloud.model.beans.AccessAttributeValue",
      "guid" : "7ef9f6e1-86ab-4f6b-8dc1-fceed3010c98",
      "name" : "USE_LOCAL_DATASTORE"
      } ],
   
4. Save the file.