diff --git a/engine/components-api/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManager.java b/engine/components-api/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManager.java
index b63574cd808..0e245920af3 100644
--- a/engine/components-api/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManager.java
+++ b/engine/components-api/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManager.java
@@ -238,4 +238,6 @@ public interface StorageManager extends StorageService {
 
     DiskTO getDiskWithThrottling(DataTO volTO, Volume.Type volumeType, long deviceId, String path, long offeringId, long diskOfferingId);
 
+    boolean isStoragePoolDatastoreClusterParent(StoragePool pool);
+
 }
diff --git a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDao.java b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDao.java
index 2398e91c90c..f5929f440c4 100644
--- a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDao.java
+++ b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDao.java
@@ -123,4 +123,6 @@ public interface PrimaryDataStoreDao extends GenericDao<StoragePoolVO, Long> {
     List<StoragePoolVO> listLocalStoragePoolByPath(long datacenterId, String path);
 
     void deletePoolTags(long poolId);
+
+    List<StoragePoolVO> listChildStoragePoolsInDatastoreCluster(long poolId);
 }
diff --git a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDaoImpl.java b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDaoImpl.java
index fee9dc28bd0..7d6b2821e72 100644
--- a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDaoImpl.java
+++ b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/PrimaryDataStoreDaoImpl.java
@@ -552,4 +552,10 @@ public class PrimaryDataStoreDaoImpl extends GenericDaoBase<StoragePoolVO, Long>
     public void deletePoolTags(long poolId) {
         _tagsDao.deleteTags(poolId);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<StoragePoolVO> listChildStoragePoolsInDatastoreCluster(long poolId) {
+        QueryBuilder<StoragePoolVO> sc = QueryBuilder.create(StoragePoolVO.class);
+        sc.and(sc.entity().getParent(), Op.EQ, poolId);
+        return sc.list();    }
 }
diff --git a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/StoragePoolVO.java b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/StoragePoolVO.java
index 24fcaa03f56..2cdcae54de2 100644
--- a/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/StoragePoolVO.java
+++ b/engine/schema/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/datastore/db/StoragePoolVO.java
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ public class StoragePoolVO implements StoragePool {
     @Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING)
     private HypervisorType hypervisor;
 
+    @Column(name = "parent")
+    private Long parent;
+
     @Override
     public long getId() {
         return id;
@@ -373,6 +376,14 @@ public class StoragePoolVO implements StoragePool {
         return !isShared();
     }
 
+    public Long getParent() {
+        return parent;
+    }
+
+    public void setParent(Long parent) {
+        this.parent = parent;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean isInMaintenance() {
         return status == StoragePoolStatus.PrepareForMaintenance || status == StoragePoolStatus.Maintenance || status == StoragePoolStatus.ErrorInMaintenance ||
diff --git a/engine/storage/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/allocator/AbstractStoragePoolAllocator.java b/engine/storage/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/allocator/AbstractStoragePoolAllocator.java
index 23fb2142868..68efe16fd7a 100644
--- a/engine/storage/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/allocator/AbstractStoragePoolAllocator.java
+++ b/engine/storage/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/allocator/AbstractStoragePoolAllocator.java
@@ -217,6 +217,11 @@ public abstract class AbstractStoragePoolAllocator extends AdapterBase implement
         List<Volume> requestVolumes = new ArrayList<>();
         requestVolumes.add(volume);
         if (dskCh.getHypervisorType() == HypervisorType.VMware) {
+            // Skip the parent datastore cluster, consider only child storage pools in it
+            if (pool.getPoolType() == Storage.StoragePoolType.DatastoreCluster && storageMgr.isStoragePoolDatastoreClusterParent(pool)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+
             try {
                 boolean isStoragePoolStoragepolicyComplaince = storageMgr.isStoragePoolComplaintWithStoragePolicy(requestVolumes, pool);
                 if (!isStoragePoolStoragepolicyComplaince) {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
index 4f28fa29e72..b8a2f83d822 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
@@ -2613,6 +2613,15 @@ public class StorageManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements StorageManager, C
         return disk;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean isStoragePoolDatastoreClusterParent(StoragePool pool) {
+        List<StoragePoolVO> childStoragePools = _storagePoolDao.listChildStoragePoolsInDatastoreCluster(pool.getId());
+        if (childStoragePools != null && !childStoragePools.isEmpty()) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     private void setVolumeObjectTOThrottling(VolumeObjectTO volumeTO, final ServiceOffering offering, final DiskOffering diskOffering) {
         volumeTO.setBytesReadRate(getDiskBytesReadRate(offering, diskOffering));
         volumeTO.setBytesWriteRate(getDiskBytesWriteRate(offering, diskOffering));