Limitations of VMware application backups
Databases are cataloged and protected only for the configurations that are supported for VMware backups. Make sure to store databases and transaction logs on supported storage.
VMware application backups do not support the following policy options and configurations:
Incremental backups. Instead, you can create an MS-SQL-Server policy for SQL Server incremental backups.
SQL Server clusters or SQL Server availability groups.
SQL Server databases are not cataloged and backed up if they exist on the following:
Any virtual machines that use raw device mapping (RDM).
Virtual Machine Disk (vmdk) volumes that are marked as independent.
Mount points that use MBR disks. Mount points that contain SQL Server database files are only supported when the underlying disk is a GPT disk.
Virtual hard disks (VHDs).
RAID volumes.
ReFS file systems.
An excluded Windows boot disk.