Policies
In order to enable snapshot management for VM, you need to do the following steps:
As well as other types of Policies, you'll also find 4 main sections here.
General
Under this section, you can set up:
Name of policy
Switch on/off for auto remove non-present virtual environments
Set priority for tasks
Auto-assignment
In this section, you can set up:
Mode
Disabled
Assign only
Assign and remove
Include or exclude rules based on hypervisor tag's or regular expression matching VM name:
regular expression examples:
.*
match any character any number of timesvm-[0-9][0-9][0-9]
- match the name that starts withvm-
and 3 digits(prod|uat|dev)-[0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z]?
- match the name that starts withprod
oruat
ordev
prefix, then-
, then 3 digits and optional lower-case letter (matching is case-sensitive)
exclude rules always take precedence over include rules
VMs may not be reassigned to the different policies if they already have a matching policy assigned
VMs may be reassigned to the different policy only if the mode is
Assign and remove
, current policy assignment rules don't match, and other's policy rules matchrules are joined with OR operator, so
if any rule (tag or matched regular expression) excludes VM - it will be excluded
if no rule (tag or matched regular expression) excludes VM, and any rule (tag or matched regular expression) includes VM - it will be included
You can also select clusters to match only VMs that belong to them
Virtual Environments
In this place, you can select virtual machines manually in a simple way.
Rule
Provide retention settings - how many snapshots (created by this policy) will be kept and for how long. If you have already created a schedule, you can also select it.
Note. You can also perform the same action thanks to the CLI interface: CLI Reference.
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