Things to know before you protect Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines

You cannot backup the same Red Hat Virtualization VM concurrently.
The VMs without virtual disks cannot be protected.
The following QCOW2 image attributes are not supported:
- Compressed cluster
- Encrypted disks
- Virtual disks with internal snapshots
If the VM virtual disks are locked when the NetBackup services shutdown or crash during a backup, use Red Hat Virtualization's unlock_entity command to unlock the disks. If the disks are not unlocked, the subsequent backups might fail.
See Error run into while backing up Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines.
On a file storage (NFS), a QCOW2 disk gets restored as raw disk (thin provision) because of an Red Hat Virtualization limitation.
A thin dependent cloned VM is restored as an independent cloned VM.
If you want to use a storage that is not available through the NetBackup Web UI like a tape or basic disk based storage unit, you can use APIs or command line options to protect the VMs.
For the minimum permissions required to perform VM backup and restore, see https://support.cohesity.com/s/article/article-100050733