To Quiesce or not to Quiesce

[Backup_Guy]

Hello,
I have been a NetBackup customer for quite some time and we are getting ready to move over to Veeam (P.O. done). We have always used the quiesce option unless the server was to busy and couldn't do it. In a backup policy there is a option for this (Edit policy | Storage | Advanced | vSphere). One person from Veeam which I talked to said that they don't use this option unless it's a file server. I'm trying to get a sense about how it is being done by people using the product...

Kevin M

Thanks for looking...

[PetrM]

Hi Kevin,

I'd recommend to use application-aware image processing if you run your file server on Windows.
Both AAIP and VMware tools quiescence trigger VSS snapshots however AAIP deploys the runtime process directly in the guest VM instead of leveraging VMware tools.

You should enable VMware tools quiescence for the VMs which can not be processed with application-aware image processing. For example, VMs that do no support Microsoft VSS.

Thanks!

[nitramd]

Kevin,

Be aware that VMware Tools quiescence can cause issues with backups. With this said, this may be better than nothing.