I'm interested in alternative options to restoring our SAP servers, vmware virtual machines. Our current environment is leveraged and are backed up using HP Data Protector, volume data level backups only, which doesn't support "bare metal" restores using VMware ESx/ESXI image .vmdk and .vmx backup file formats.
We need to do a proof of concept SAP restore scenario to recover a singel failed Windows Server VM instance in an ESX Cluster.
What are some options other than Volume Data Level Backup to accomplish restoring for this scenario?
Can we switch from Volume Data Level backups to something specific for that SAP Windows, OS, and database environment?