PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

Add or remove assets in a protection policy

Perform the following steps in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI to add or remove an asset in a protection policy.

1. From the left navigation pane, select Protection > Protection Policies.
   The Protection Policies window appears.
2. Select the protection policy that you want to modify, and click Edit.
   The Edit Policy wizard opens on the Assets page.

   NOTE:For virtual machine protection policies, the view that you selected when creating the policy is retained in this page, and cannot be changed. For example, if you set up this policy with list view selected, all assets protected by this policy will display in a table on this page, and the option to select tree view will be disabled. Both views provide additional information about the virtual machines, such as any currently associated tags and existing policy assignments, to help you identify which assets you want to add or remove from this policy. Only the tree view, however, shows assets that are protected based on protection rules. To view assets that are protected with protection rules, switch from list view to tree view.
3. To add a container or asset to the protection policy:
   1. Click + Add.
      The Add Assets dialog displays the list of assets that are available for selection. To view only unprotected assets, ensure that Show only unprotected assets is selected.
   2. Select the individual unprotected assets that you want to add to the policy, or select a container level within the hierarchy to add all assets within that level, and then click Add.
      The Assets page updates with the changes.
4. To remove containers or assets from the protection policy, select the object and click Remove.
   The Assets page updates with the changes.

   NOTE: When an asset is moved out of policy while a backup is in progress, PowerProtect Data Manager sets the default retention period for that asset as 30 days. You can modify the retention period for that asset according to your requirement.
5. Optionally, if you want to exclude non-production VMDKs such as network shares or test disks from a protection policy:
   1. Select the virtual machine asset from the list, and then click Manage Exclusions in the Disk Excluded column.
      The Exclude Disks dialog box appears. By default, the slider next to each VMDK is set to Included.
   2. For each disk that you want to exclude, move the slider to the right. The status updates to Excluded.
   3. Click Save. The Assets page updates to indicate the number of disks for that particular asset that will be excluded from the protection policy.
6. Click Next to save the changes and go to the Summary page.
7. In the Summary page, click Finish
   An informational dialog box appears.
8. Click OK to exit the dialog box, or click Go to Jobs to open the Jobs window to monitor the backup of the new protection policy.