Creating an SLA policy for hypervisors

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You can create custom service level agreement (SLA) policies to define options such as the backup location and schedule for hypervisor virtual machines (VMs). Depending on the back up location, you can also define options such as data retention, replication, and copy policies.

Before you begin

Ensure that the storage system that you want to associate with the SLA policy is configured in IBM Storage® Protect Plus before you create the policy. For information about the adding a vSnap server or OSSM server, see Registering a vSnap server as a backup storage provider or Adding the Open Snap Store Manager server as a backup storage provider.

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During the process of creating an SLA policy, you can select one of the following options for primary backup storage:
  • A vSnap server (VMware or Microsoft™ Hyper-V VMs)
  • An Open Snap Store Manager (OSSM) server (only VMware VMs)

To create an SLA policy to back up to a vSnap server, see the instructions in Creating an SLA policy for hypervisor backup to a vSnap server

To create an SLA policy to back up to an OSSM server, see the instructions in Creating an SLA policy for VMware backup to the OSSM storage server