Apply a Global SLA Domain

To apply our newly created SLA, we will first browse the objects we want to protect in the inventory. To do this, click on Inventory from the top menu, and then hover over Data Center. From here, click on vSphere VMs:

Rubrik Security Cloud - Data Protection Inventory

From the vSphere VMs inventory page, browse the options/levels to which you can apply an SLA, such as Virtual Machines, Folders, Clusters/Hosts, and Tags. You will discover the flexibility in how an SLA can be applied and slipstreamed into a provisioning process while maintaining the definitions outlined in the SLA policy:

Rubrik Security Cloud - vSphere Workloads

NOTE: Many customers elect to place a baseline protection scheme across their environment. This ensures that, at minimum, workloads will be protected as they are created.

To get a sense of how an SLA is applied, tick the checkbox next to the zaffire-test virtual machine, and click on the Manage Protection button:

Rubrik Security Cloud - Manage Protection

Select the radio button next to DEMO-SLA - or your common name from the previous section - and then click the Next button:

Manage Protection - Assign SLA

Review the confirmation of the wizard. The Apply changes to existing snapshots enabled means that any previous snapshots will follow the new SLA definition. This is helpful if you want to migrate or transition from a previous SLA definition. To complete the process, click the Assign button:

Manage Protection - Assign SLA

To confirm the assignment, click on Events from the top menu:

Rubrik Security Cloud - Events

Next, expand the event in the log viewer to confirm the assignment:

Rubrik Security Cloud - Events

NOTE: The events page spans your entire Rubrik deployment. This powerful tool lets administrators view events across all the protected objects and data in the solution.

Well done completing this module on Global SLA Domains! In conclusion, we will recap our activities from this lab.