A VM protection policy enables you to select a specific group of VM assets that you want to backup and replicate.
Figure 6. Protection policy – purpose for VM backup
- Crash Consistent - Select this type for point-in-time backup of virtual machines.
- Application Aware - For virtual machines with a SQL application installed, select this type to quiesce the application to perform the SQL database and transaction log backup. When you select this type, you must provide Windows account credentials for the virtual machine. You can provide the credentials at the protection-policy level or the virtual machine asset level. When you provide the credentials at both levels, the virtual machine asset credentials override the policy credentials.
- Exclusion - Select this type if there are assets within the protection policy that you plan to exclude from data protection operations.