We have 3 vSphere ESXi servers currently running approximately 40 VMs. They are currently being backed up using VDR which is doing a good job for us in all but 1 respect - it's not providing application consistent SQL backups on our 3 SQL servers.
To get around the problem our SD/DBA guys are running SQL backups to an additional vmdk attached to the SQL servers and VDR is backing up this vmdk only on the SQL servers. They are running a full SQL backup every night and transaction log backups every 15 minutes and say they can restore to any point in time using the log backups.
Although we're confident we can restore from any db corruption or DR situation, it would involve 2 separate teams and 2 separate restore procedures. Ideally we'd like to implement a single backup and recovery solution that will back up all our VMs, including transactionally consistent SQL backups so that we could relieve the SD/DBA guys of all backup and restore responsibilities.
We would need restore points on our SQL servers every 15 minutes to replicate the point in time restores we can achieve at the moment but without having to restore all the transaction logs.
I have just downloaded Veeam and am about to start a trial but I was wondering if people had experienced the same problem and addressed it with a VM image level backup solution such as Veeam or vRanger. Is it possible to achieve our requirements?