PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Administration and User Guide

Protection policies

Protection policies define sets of objectives that apply to specific periods of time. These objectives drive configuration, active protection, and copy-data-management operations that satisfy the business requirements for the specified data. Each policy type has its own set of user objectives.

Only the Administrator role can create or edit protection policies.

You can create protection policies for the following asset types:

• VMware virtual machines
• Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases
• Oracle databases
• SAP HANA databases
• File systems
• Kubernetes clusters
• Storage groups
• Network-attached storage (NAS)

This guide provides steps only for virtual-machine protection policies. For other policy types, refer to the individual user guides.