Cloning policies in VCF Operations/Aria Operations

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

This is the method by which to create a clone copy of a policy in VCF Operations/Aria Operations.

Environment

VCF Operations 8.x/9.x

Resolution

Cloning a policy

1) Navigate to the policy definition page (Configurations > Policy definition)
2) Select the policy you want to clone, click ellipses, export and save the file

3) Open the .xml file in your text editor of choice
4) Generate a random UUID and replace the one in the "Policy key" field 

Note: It does not matter what value you put here, just create a random UUID so Ops sees this as a new policy. UUIDs consist of numbers and lower case letters punctuated by dashes with the following number of characters in each field -> 8-4-4-4-12

5) Change the "name" field to the display name you would like for your cloned policy. Save and exit the file.
6) Import the cloned policy by selecting the same ellipses as above, clicking import, and choosing the .xml file you just modified.

The new policy now exists in your policy definition page.

Cloning a child policy

This involved the same process as above, however you must modify the parent policy key and name fields, ensuring they match the target parent policy:

The fields highlighted in yellow should match the parent policy's key, and the field highlighted in green should match the parent policy's name.