Setting a default policy

You can select one of the predefined or custom policies to be the default policy for your data protection environment. After you set a default policy, it is assigned to one of the following:

  • All existing virtual machines that do not have an assigned policy and all newly discovered virtual machines.
  • All newly discovered virtual machines.

To access the Policies panel, in the navigation pane, click  Policies.

Procedure

  1. In the Policies panel, select the policy that you want to set as default, and then click  Set Default.

  2. In the Set Default Policy dialog box, do one of the following:

    • Click Yes to assign the default policy to all virtual machines that do not have an assigned policy and all newly discovered virtual machines.

    • Click No to assign the default policy only to newly discovered virtual machines.

The default policy is represented by the icon. If you later decide not to use this policy as the default one, click  Clear Default. Keep in mind that by doing so, you do not unassign this policy from the virtual machines to which it was assigned.