You must back up the VMs for VMware Aria Suite components in a specific order.

Depending on the VMware Aria Suite components that are configured and your requirements, schedule backups for your VMware Aria Suite components in this order.

Note:

If you do not have a particular component, you can move to the next component in the specified order. The order of the VMs can also be defined in the backup tools.

  1. vRealize Business: Back up the VM for vRealize Business.

  2. VMware Aria Operations for Logs: If the resources are not an issue, to speed up the backup process activate concurrent cluster node backups. Back up all the nodes at the same time.

  3. VMware Aria Operations : Back up all the nodes at the same time.

  4. VMware Automation Orchestrator: Back up all the nodes at the same time.

    • If VMware Automation Orchestrator is a standalone component, back it up before VMware Aria Automation components.

    • If VMware Automation Orchestrator is embedded in the VMware Aria Automation deployment, back it up as part of the VMware Aria Appliance.

  5. VMware Aria Automation7: Back up the VMware Aria Automation 7.x components in this order:

    1. Proxy Agents
    2. DEM Workers
    3. DEM Orchestrator
    4. Manager Services
    5. Web sites
    6. VMware Aria Automation Appliances
    7. PostgreSQL, if applicable
    8. MS SQL

    If you have multiple components on a VM, select the order considering the latter component on the VM from the list.

  6. VMware Aria Automation 8.x: Ensure that all services are offline. Back up all VMware Aria Automation 8.x nodes at the same time.