Which component determines the datastore that the PV will be placed on?

A developer is deploying pods with Persistent Volumes (PV) on vSphere with Tanzu.

Which component determines the datastore that the PV will be placed on?
A . CNS-CSI
B. Hostd
C. Spherelet
D. SPBM

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Answer: D

Explanation:

This is because according to VMware documentation34, vSphere with Tanzu uses storage policies to integrate with shared datastores available in your environment, including VMFS, NFS, vSAN, or vVols datastores. The storage policies represent datastores and manage the storage placement of such objects as persistent volumes (PVs). Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) is a framework that provides a single unified control plane across different types of datastores and enables administrators to define policies based on storage capabilities and requirements5.