About protecting an application database with VMware backups
With a VMware backup policy and the Veritas VSS provider, NetBackup can create consistent, full backups of an application database that resides on a virtual machine.
VMware application backups let you:
Use the existing database restore process to restore and recover data from VMware backups.
Restore and recover databases from VMware backups to alternate clients. The target destination client can be a physical computer or a virtual machine.
See the following information on virtual systems compatibility:
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_70_80_VE
Veritas recommends the Veritas VSS provider. VMware Tools calls the provider to quiesce the VSS writers for a file-level consistent backup. Without this VSS provider (or the VMware VSS Provider), database recovery may require manual steps and granular recovery is not supported.
See Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere.
The Veritas VSS provider allows VMware backups that truncate the logs on SQL Server virtual machines. The Veritas VSS provider truncates the logs by means of full VSS backups. Note that the VMware VSS provider creates copy-only backups, which cannot be used as a basis to truncate logs.