Managing protection sets

If you have the required permissions granted, you can perform the following protection set-related tasks:

Task	Instructions
Create a protection set and include preferred resource groups in it.	“Creating a protection set”
Edit an existing protection set.	“Editing a protection set”
Add a resource group to a protection set by using a tag.	“Adding a resource group to a protection set by using a tag”
Exclude a resource group from a protection set.	“Excluding a resource group from a protection set”
Delete a protection set that you no longer need.	“Deleting a protection set”

For details on protection sets, see “Determining the scope of data protection”.

Creating a protection set

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the Subscription drop-down menu, select the HYCU for Azure subscription for which you want to create a new protection set.
2. Click  New.
3. Enter a name for your protection set.

4. From the list of available resource groups, select one or more resource groups that you want to include in the protection set.

   t Tip  You can search for a resource group by entering its name in the Search field and then pressing Enter. By selecting the Resource group check box, you select all resource groups at once.

5. Click Save.

The protection set is created and added to the list of protection sets.

Editing a protection set

You can modify the name of a protection set, and include or exclude resource groups from the protection set. You can exclude the resource groups from the protection set also directly by following the procedure described in “Excluding a resource group from a protection set”.

Consideration

You cannot edit the default protection set created by HYCU for Azure (represented by the  icon).

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the list of protection sets, select the one that you want to edit, and then click  Edit.
2. Edit the selected protection set as required.
3. Click Save.

Adding a resource group to a protection set by using a tag

As an alternative to adding a resource group to a protection set by using the HYCU for Azure web user interface, you can also add a resource group to a protection set by applying the hycu-protection-set tag to the resource group in Azure.

Prerequisite

The protection set to which you want to add the resource group must be created in HYCU for Azure.

Procedure

In Azure, apply the tag to the resource group as the following key-value pair:

Name	Value
hycu-protection-set	<ProtectionSetName> In this case, <ProtectionSetName> is the name of the protection set to which you want to add the resource group.

The resource group is automatically added to the preferred protection set during the next virtual machine synchronization in HYCU for Azure.

For detailed instructions on how to create and manage tags, see Azure documentation.

Excluding a resource group from a protection set

By excluding a resource group from a protection set, you do not remove the selected resource group from HYCU for Azure, but move it to the default protection set.

Consideration

You cannot exclude resource groups from the default protection set created by HYCU for Azure (represented by the  icon).

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the list of protection sets, click before the name of the protection set that contains resource groups that you want to exclude. The list of all included resource groups is displayed.

2. Select the resource group that you want to exclude from the protection set, and then click  Remove.
3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the selected resource group.

Deleting a protection set

By deleting a protection set, you do not remove its resource groups from HYCU for Azure, but move them to the default protection set.

Consideration

You cannot delete the default protection set created by HYCU for Azure (represented by the  icon).

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the list of protection sets, select the one that you want to delete from HYCU for Azure, and then click  Delete.

2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the selected protection set.