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.
From one VMware backup, choose from these restore options: Disk-level restore, file-level recovery, database restore, or granular-level restore (GRT).
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.