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Create a protection policy

About this task

Create a protection policy to provide local and/or remote protection for your storage resources. Each protection policy can include one replication rule, one remote backup rule, and up to four snapshot rules. A rule can be in multiple policies.

Steps

  1. Select Protection > Protection Policies.
  2. In the Protection Policies window, click Create.
  3. In the Create Protection Policy slide-out panel, enter a name for the new policy.
  4. Optionally, select snapshot rules that you want to include in the policy or create a snapshot rule (see Create a Snapshot Rule).
  5. Optionally, select a replication rule that you want to include in the policy or create a replication rule (see Create a Replication Rule).
  6. Optionally, select a remote backup rule that you want to include in the policy or create a remote backup rule (see Create a remote backup rule).
  7. Click Create.

Results

When you create a protection policy that includes a replication rule, the policy is automatically replicated to the remote system and assigned to destination resources created by the policy. The replicated policy and associated rules names consist of the policy and rules names on the source system, appended with the name of the remote system. Changes made to the original policy or included rules, are replicated to the remote system to maintain synchronization. After a replication failover, the replicated policy becomes active on the destination system.

The replicated policies and rules are managed by the system and are not displayed in the destination system policy and rules tables. However, you can see the rules details in the Protection tab of the replicating volumes or volume groups, by hovering over the replicated policy name. For protection policies that are assigned to metro volumes, an identical read-only policy is created on the remote system and can be viewed on the Protection Policies window of the remote system PowerStore Manager.

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