In last post we learnt how to perform vCloud Availability 3.0 end to end configuration. But before we can jump into performing tenant side configuration, we need to configure Replication Policies.

Replication policies are sets of rules that define and control the replication attributes on a vCD organization level. Typically a replication policy enforces following attributes:

• Whether an organization can be used as a replication source.
• Whether an organization can be used as a replication destination.
• The minimum Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for an organization.
• The maximum number of retained snapshots per single virtual machine replication for an organization.
• The maximum number of virtual machine replications that can be created for an organization.

Note: A single replication policy can be assigned to multiple vCD organizations. 

Create a Replication Policy

You can edit and use the default replication policy that comes with vCAV or you can create a new one based on your requirements. 

To create a new policy, login to vCloud Availability Portal (https://<vcav-fqdn>ui/admin) via root user and navigate to Home > Policies and click on New or .

Specify name for the policy and select the attributes that will be part of this policy and click on Create button.

Select the newly created policy and click on Assign button to associate this policy with vCD organizations.

Select the organization and click on Assign.

You can see in below screenshot that the selected policy shows 1 org. 

And that’s it for this post. In next post of this series, we will learn how to perform Tenant Side configuration.