Adding a VM replication sub-policy to a NetApp ONTAP SLA policy

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The procedures describe how to add a VM Replication sub-policy to a NetApp ONTAP SLA policy.

Procedure

  1. Select the source icon and define the recovery point objective to determine the minimum frequency and interval with which backups must be made. In the Frequency field select Minutes, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, then set the interval in the Interval field. The lowest available frequency is five minutes.
    Tip: Edits to the frequency and interval of an SLA policy apply to all associated job schedules.
  2. Click Add VM Replication.
  3. In the VM Replication Destination pane select an SVM from the list of available resources as the VM Replication destination, along with an associated aggregate. If no aggregate is selected, the aggregate with the largest amount of space available is chosen by default.
  4. In the Options pane set the VM Replication sub-policy options.
    Keep Snapshots
    After a certain number of snapshot instances are created for a resource, older instances are purged from the storage controller. Enter the age of the snapshot instances to purge in the Days field, or the number of instances to keep in the Snapshots field.
    Disable system snapshot policy
    Disables all the system snapshot jobs on the storage volumes.
    Snapshot Prefix Label
    Enter an optional label to identify the snapshot. This label is added as a prefix to the snapshot name created by the job.
    Tip: Snapshot labels must contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores.
    Name
    Enter an optional label to replace the default snapshot sub-policy label displayed in IBM® Storage Defender Copy Data Management. The default initial label is VM Replication0.
    Storage Efficiency (Deduplication)
    Enable or disable storage efficiency. Storage efficiency uses data deduplication to store the maximum amount of data while consuming less space.
    Destination Datastore Type
    Set the destination datastore type. Available datastore types include NFS and VMFS.
    NFS - A NetApp volume will be created for NFS access and the target datastore will be created on that NFS share.
    VMFS - A NetApp volume will be created and a LUN will be created on the volume. The volume will be mapped to the ESX, and the LUN will be formatted for VMFS. A VMFS datastore will be created on the LUN.