So I believe that when using SRM with vSphere replication, that when VMs are replicated, VMware tools first does a VSS quiesce on the VM. We can see this here:
But what about when using array based replication instead of vSphere replication?
Would it be the SRA that touches VMwtools on each VM, causing it to trigger a VSS quiesce? Or - is this not done?
If it is not done - how do we assure that the servers and applications are proplerly quiesced before they are replicated? Is there a way to do a "pre-replicate" power-cli or something, to ensure that (for example) SQL running on a VM is properly quiesced? We want full application consistency, not just crash consistency ...