An administrator has configured a Protection Policy to take snapshots every 1 hour. This policy will take snapshots for all VMs categorized as…

Protection Policies in Prism Central select VMs that match all category values listed in the policy (“logical AND”). The policy in the scenario contains two required categories: Protection: Silver and Environment: Prod. The marketplace-deployed VM received only Environment: Prod; because it lacks Protection: Silver, it does not satisfy the complete match set, so the policy never applies and no hourly snapshots are created.

B. Security and Protection policies are independent; a VM can simultaneously be governed by both.
C. Dynamic inclusion by category removes any need to add VMs manually.
D. Assigning Environment: Dev would break the Security policy and still fail the Protection policy, which needs Environment: Prod.

1. Nutanix Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Guide v6.5, “Creating Protection Policies,” p. 32–33: “When multiple category values are specified, the policy applies only to VMs that possess all those values.”

2. Nutanix Security Policy Guide v6.5, “Category-Based Micro-Segmentation,” p. 12: explains Security policies do not interfere with Protection policy mechanics.

3. Nutanix Prism Central Admin Guide v6.5, “Using Categories for Objects,” p. 26: confirms automatic, not manual, inclusion of VMs into policies when category criteria are met.