1. Does it matter if we also have a backup utility on some clients that backs up essential data, but not the enitre machine? The software does call to the Microsoft VSS in the guest. This is related to SQL or Exchange and regualr file backups of critical data.
Not really I believe. Just try to schedule VMware image backup and guest OS level backup to run at different times.
2. Why does VMDR sometimes not remove the snapshots? And then the job fails altogether for that machine?
Sometimes it happen that snapshot is failed to commit and remains in place. Next backup = next snapshot.
Just write a small script to check if there any snapshots left to run every day in the morning.
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