There is a category called Protection and it has five values:• snap_1_hr• snap_6_hr• snap_24_hr• sync_remote_repl•...

To enforce different configurations for different types of workloads within the same Project, Nutanix Self-Service usesEnvironments.

Environments:These are logical configurations within a Project that map to specific infrastructure settings. An administrator can define multiple environments (e.g., "Development" and "Production") within the "Engineering" project.

Category Assignment:Within each Environment configuration, the administrator can define specificVM Categoriesthat will be automatically applied to any VM provisioned into that environment.

Mapping:

Production Environment:Assign the category Protection: async_1hr_repl (Matches requirement: Asynchronous remote replication every 1 hour).

Development Environment:Assign the category Protection: snap_24_hr (Matches requirement: Daily snapshots).

Execution:When a user launches a blueprint, they select the target Environment (Dev or Prod). The system automatically tags the VMs with the categories defined in that environment, which in turn engages the Protection Policies associated with those tags.

Option B uses the wrong category values (sync_remote_repl instead of async). Options C and D suggest using Playbooks, but the native and most efficient method for applying deployment-time governance in Self-Service is via theProject Environmentsettings.