Protection profile inheritance

Kaspersky Security uses protection profile inheritance according to the hierarchy of VMware inventory objects.

A protection profile assigned to a VMware inventory object is inherited by all of its child objects, including virtual machines, unless the child object/virtual machine has been assigned its own protection profile or unless the child object/virtual machine has been excluded from protection. This means that you can either assign a specific protection profile to a virtual machine, or let it inherit the protection profile that is used by its parent object.

A VMware inventory object can be excluded from protection. If you exclude a VMware inventory object from protection, all child objects that inherited the protection profile from the parent object are also excluded from protection. You can exclude from protection all child objects that have their own protection profile assigned, or leave them under the protection of the application.

Protection profile inheritance makes it possible to assign identical protection settings to multiple virtual machines simultaneously. For example, you can assign identical protection profiles to the virtual machines within a VMware cluster or resource pool.