Backing up VMware-replicated VMs

[bretth]

We replicate our key servers to Cloud with VMware Cloud Director Availability, and want to enable quiescing for these replications. Unfortunately this uses snapshots, and conflicts with snapshot-based backups. Broadcom's suggestions (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external ... cyId=81059) are to disable quiescing on the replication, pause replication during backups, or use a different backup strategy.

Does anyone use this? How well does it work? Anyone come up with a better option? We can run pre- and post-job scripts to turn off replication before a backup job and turn it back on after the backup, but this really makes me uncomfortable.

[haslund]

You could consider using Agent-based backups to avoid snapshots too.