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By Bharath Ram, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, HPE Nimble StorageHPE Nimble Storage has now extended VSS integration for applications running on VVol VMs. An end-to-end automated workflow is now possible that allows application data to be backed-up and enables administrators to separate their VM & application backups.Microsoft VSS IntegrationWith the 5.0 release of NimbleOS, HPE brings Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for VVols using application consistent snapshots. If you are not already familiar with the new VVol capabilities NimbleOS 5.0 brings, refer to this, which goes into detail on various new features that have been developed and integrated with the new HPE Nimble Storage vCenter plugin.HPE has now extended VSS integration for applications running on VVol VMs. We now provide end-to-end automated workflows that allow application data to be backed-up and enable administrators to separate their VM backups and application backups. The volume that holds the OS will be in a crash consistent state and while the data volumes holding the application will be in held in an application consistent state. Taking application consistent snapshots helps administrators to protect against transactional data loss (application-aware) and maintain data integrity and reduce downtime during restore operations.All the applications that are currently supported by current versions of HPE Nimble Storage Windows Kit are also supported with the new release for VVols.Supported ApplicationsLet’s go over an example using a SQL server to show how easy it is to enable and manage VSS based application recovery for VVol VMs.Step 1.