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title: "Is protection Policy Limit Counted on Destination When Using Native Replication"
slug: "faq-is-protection-policies-limit-counted-on-destination-when-using-native-replication"
description: "Protective policies are mirrored during native replication, so they're included in dest. limits too."
updated: 2026-11-03T00:27:55Z
published: 2026-11-03T00:27:55Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/faq-is-protection-policies-limit-counted-on-destination-when-using-native-replication"
---

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# Is protection Policy Limit Counted on Destination When Using Native Replication

## Summary

A protection policy is a reusable configuration that defines a schedule for taking snapshots and optionally replicating them to a specified native replication peer or S3 replication peer.

A replication peer is another cluster configured as a destination for native replication.

The protection policy is mirrored to the replication peer, where it can be used for replicating in the reverse direction in the event of a failover.

## Question

If we set up native replication between cluster A and cluster B, then the protection policy created on cluster A is mirrored to the replication peer Cluster B

So does this add to the count of protection policy on Cluster B ?

## Solution

Yes, since the protection policy from Cluster A is mirrored to Cluster B , this mirrored protection policy is also counted as a protection policy on Cluster B

## Further Reading

Also refer to the [VAST Cluster Scale Guidelines](/reference/docs/vast-cluster-scale-guidelines), which specify the maximum number of protection policies that can be created in a cluster