Create a protection plan to configure the protection of one or more replication pairs.
If an application or a collection of data (called data sets) contains several volumes that need to be replicated, and the same protection policies apply to each of these volumes, you can place the replication pairs for those volumes in the same protection plan. If the volumes in other applications or data sets require different protection policies, you can create separate protection plans for these volumes.
Protection plans make it possible to apply different protection policies to different groups of replication pairs and to apply policy changes to the entire group at one time.
Because volumes of data associated with application A have the same protection requirements, you can group the replication pairs for these volumes together in the same protection plan. Because volumes associated with application B have different protection requirements, you can include the replication pairs for these volumes in a different protection plan.
When you need to make a protection policy change such as a performance improvement change for volumes associated with application A, you can make that change once to the performance plan rather than making the same change to each replication pair individually. The replication pairs in the application B protection plan are unaffected.