An administrator is utilizing different storage configuration techniques for specifying storage locations.

The storage allocation techniques that override others in order of precedence are:

A storage constraint tag on a machine overrides a storagepolicy property on a disk. A storage constraint tag is a tag that you add to a machine resource in a cloud template to specify the type of storage that you want to use for the machine. A storagepolicy property is a property that you add to a disk resource in a cloud template to specify the storage policy that you want to use for the disk. If both a storage constraint tag and a storagepolicy property are present in the same cloud template, the storage constraint tag takes precedence and determines the storage location for both the machine and the disk. The storagepolicy property is ignored.

A storagepolicy property on a disk overrides the preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is a storageprofile that you select as the default for a cloud zone. It is used to allocate storage for deployments that do not have any storage constraint tags or storagepolicy properties in the cloud template. If a storagepolicy property is present in the cloud template, it takes precedence and determines the storage location for the disk. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is ignored.

The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile overrides a storagePolicy property on a disk. This is the lowest precedence level for storage allocation techniques. If none of the above techniques are present in the cloud template, the preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is used to allocate storage for the deployment. The storagePolicy property on a disk is ignored.

The other options, A and D, are not valid storage allocation techniques, as they do not reflect the actual behavior of VMware Aria Automation. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile does not override any other storage allocation technique, and it is not applied to individual disks, but to the entire cloud zone. References:

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