Product : HPE, SimpliVity [HCI]/4.0.1 U1, 380
Feature : Backup Consistency, Points-in-Time, Data Availability
Content Owner:  Herman Rutten
Summary
vSphere: File System Consistent (Windows), Application Consistent (MS Apps on Windows)
Hyper-V: File System Consistent (Windows)
Details
HPE SimpliVity 380 provides the option to enable Microsoft VSS integration when configuring a backup policy or when initiating manual backups using the CLI backup command. This ensures application-consistent backups are created for MS Exchange and MS SQL database environments.

In OmniStack 3.6.1 support was added for VSS on virtual machines running SQL Server 2012/2016 on the Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system.

HPE SimpliVity 380 also still provides the option to create crash-consistent backups by setting consistency to "none".