Architecting a vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Solution : Monitoring : 8.3 Backup Strategy
   
8.3 Backup Strategy
The backup and recovery is performed with combination of VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection compatible backup solution at VM level with database-level backups. The following table summarizes the backup strategy for each solution component:
Table 18. Backup Strategy
Component
Backup Strategy
Notes
vSphere Replication Cloud Service
VM level
stateless
vSphere Replication Server
VM level
 
vSphere Replication Manager Server
VM level
+ external database backups
Cloud Proxy
VM level
stateless
vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Portal
VM Level
stateless
Platform Services Controller
VM level
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc%2FGUID-7FB2DA06-3737-41F0-AE53-12FBD0D1E6B7.html
vRealize Orchestrator appliance
VM level
+ external database backups
RabbitMQ
VM level
Messages are in durable HA queues
Cassandra
VM level
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_backup_restore_c.html