Configuring SLA profiles
By using Service Level Agreement (SLA) profiles for protections, the service providers
can define and control the following SLA settings: Recovery Point Objective (RPO), advanced
retention policies for the rotated instances, quiesce, compression, and initial synchronization
time.
SLA Settings Enforced by SLA
Profiles
As a
provider
, you can
assign one or more SLA profiles to multiple VMware Cloud Director
organizations to control the following SLA settings of the
protections.- The target recovery point objective (RPO). For information about the RPO, see Replicating workloads.
- For protections, allow advanced retention rules and add rule, up to five rules, to enable retention policy configuration for the number of rotated instances and their time distance spread apart. For more information, seeAdvanced Retention Rulesin Using instances.
- Whether quiesce is activated to ensure application level consistency before creating an instance.
- Whether the replication traffic compression is activated to reduce network traffic at the expense of CPU.
- Timeslot that allows to set a delay start that is convenient for the first synchronization.
After you assign one or more SLA profiles
to an organization, the assigned SLA profiles can be selected in the replication
settings.
Migrations do not
use SLA profiles.
Predefined SLA Profiles
By default,
VMware Cloud Director
Availability
provides
the following predefined SLA profiles that are not assigned to any organization. The
predefined SLA profiles set the following SLA settings.SLA Setting | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
SLA profile name | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Target recovery point objective
(RPO) | 30 minutes | 2 hours | 4 hours |
Enable retention
policy | Selected | Deselected | |
Preserve retained
instances | 14 | 7 | Keep latest instance only. |
Retained instances over the
last | 1 day | ||
Enable quiesce | No | ||
Compress replication
traffic | Selected | ||
Delay start
synchronization | No delay | ||
As a
provider
, you can
modify the SLA settings of the predefined SLA profiles, delete them, or create additional
SLA profiles.Using Custom SLA Settings
To use custom SLA settings instead of selecting
an SLA profile in the protections, activate the
Custom SLA settings
toggle in the replication policy. For more information, see Configuring replication policies.