Managing Policy Rules

Policy rules are an integral part of job policies. Refer to the following sections for details:

About Policy Rules

In the Policy view of the inventory tree, policy rules are numbered by NAKIVO Backup & Replication for your convenience.

Every policy rule contains the following options:

  1. Search by: A drop-down list with the following search criteria:

    • VM / VM Template / Instance / Backup / Replica / Machine name: The rule is to be applied based on the name of the object. 

    • VM / Instance tag: The rule is to be applied based on the tag of the object. 

    • VM / VM Template / Instance / Replica / Backup location: The rule is to be applied based on the location of the object.

    • Name of VM datastore / VM Template datastore / Replica datastore / VM Path / Replica Path / IP address: The rule is to be applied based on the name of the datastore, path, or IP address.

    • Name of VM network / VM Template network / Subnet / replica network: The rule is to be applied based on the name of the network.

    • Size of VM / VM Template / instance / replica / physical machine: The rule is to be applied based on the size of the object.

    • Amount of VM / instance / physical / replica RAM: The rule is to be applied based on the amount of RAM for a giv