Setting up automatic assignment of data mover configurations

By setting up automatic assignment of data mover configurations, you ensure that data mover configurations are automatically assigned to all the entities to which labels are applied. This is useful in complex data protection environments where the data protection approach often requires using various labels.

Prerequisites

• All prerequisites that are required also for assigning a data mover configuration by specifying the configuration properties must be fulfilled:

  Entity	Prerequisites
  SaaS applications	Specifying configuration properties for SaaS applications
  Applications	SAP HANA: Preparing for SAP HANA application protection Google Kubernetes Engine: Preparing for Google Kubernetes Engine application protection SQL Server: Preparing for SQL Server application protection Db2: Preparing for Db2 application protection
  Instances	Planning instance protection
  Buckets	Specifying configuration properties for buckets

• For GKE applications: The resource objects for which you want to set up automatic data mover configuration assignment must be deployed as applications (the resource object of kind: Application must be defined in the application deployment).

Considerations

• If you assigned a data mover configuration to an entity by specifying the configuration properties, the automatic data mover configuration assignment will not override the already assigned data mover configuration.

• If you want to set up automatic data mover configuration assignment for SAP HANA, SQL Server, or Db2 applications, follow the instructions for the instances on which the applications are running.

Procedure

Entities	Instructions
SaaS applications	Depending on the SaaS application type, add labels or tags in your cloud console, and then specify the corresponding keys and values when creating your data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.
GKE applications	Add metadata labels to applications in Google Kubernetes Engine, and then specify the corresponding keys and values in your data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.
Instances	Add the following:  Tags to instances in Amazon EC2 or Azure Labels (preferred) or custom metadata to instances in Google Compute Engine When done, specify the corresponding keys and values in your data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.
Buckets	Add the following: Tags to buckets in Amazon S3 and Azure Labels to buckets in Google Cloud Storage When done, specify the corresponding keys and values in your data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.

The data mover configurations are automatically assigned to the entities during the next entity synchronization in R‑Cloud.