Step 6. Specify Guest Processing Settings

The Guest Processing step of the wizard is available if you have enabled the advanced settings configuration at the Summary step of the wizard.

If you want to enable guest processing, turn on the Enable application-aware snapshots toggle.

Important

Consider the following:

Guest processing is available only for Windows-based virtual machines.
To enable application-aware processing, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure installs VSS agents on source Azure VMs by running a specific PowerShell script. That is why if you use PowerShell execution policies to control the conditions under which PowerShell loads configuration files and runs scripts on your source VMs, make sure that the LocalMachine scope is set to the RemoteSigned value. Otherwise, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure will not be able to run the script and application-aware processing will fail.
While creating application-aware snapshots, VSS Guest Agent uses the VSS Copy Backup type to create snapshots of the processed Azure VMs during the backup policy session. This type of VSS backup does not support truncation of transaction log. For more information on VSS Backup types, see Microsoft Docs.