vSphere Tags & Veeam Backup

I have spent many of my years as an IT profession thinking about and designing data protection solutions. Both for organizations I worked in and for other organizations I consulted with. And it has been my opinion for much of this time that the number one enemy of well designed system is complexity. Anywhere manual process is required to maintain a data protection system is a place where failure will result. I start with this every time.

That is why I have been a longtime proponent of utilizing metadata or 'Tags' in all backup jobs I create. So let's get into how this works with a VMware backup job though Veeam v12