Create a Global SLA Domain
From the Data Protection dashboard, select SLA Domains from the menu bar:
From the SLA Domains interface, click on the Create SLA Domain button:
Familiarize yourself with the introduction in the wizard, and then click the Create button to continue:
From the SLA Domain wizard, tick the checkbox for vSphere VMs:
Fill out the frequency and retention fields with the schedule shown below, and click the Next button to continue:
If you were to schedule an archiving target, such as a supported on-prem storage target or a public cloud object storage target, you would toggle the archiving switch to configure. When ready, click the Next button to continue:
In the next section of the wizard, toggle the Replication switch to explore the replication feature of an SLA:
Now toggle the Replication switch, and click the Next button to continue the SLA wizard:
Since vSphere VMs is a selected workload for the SLA (defined earlier), Continuous Data Protection (CDP) can also be enabled per the policy. Take a look at the options by toggling the Continuous Data Protection switch. When ready, disable the option by toggling the switch, and clicking the Next button to continue:
In the Confirmation section of the SLA Domain wizard, fill out the common name for the SLA (A), review the schedule (B), and then click the Create button to create the SLA policy:
Congratulations - You have created a Global SLA Domain policy! In a production environment, this SLA could be applied to any workload that has been inventoried in Rubrik - a powerful feature when you consider the distribution of data resources in an enterprise.
In the next section, we will explore how to apply an SLA domain policy to our workloads.
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