VMs are collected for assignment to protected domains by either of the following:

  • VM Aggregation Group: CPT assigns all collected VMs specified by the user to a single protected domain.
  • Independent VM (group): CPT automatically specifies an optimal number of protected domains to handle all the collected VMs and distributes them across the protected domains according to IOPS, object store, failover mode, etc.


NOTE: VM Aggregation Groups are used by CPT to logically group VMs for assignment purposes only; whereas protected domains contain the actual VMs being protected.