Daniel, I'm still unsure what you are talking about.
There is Image level backup (VMDK)
There is Guest level backup (Traditional agent in guest)
You keep referring to file level backup?
VCB is dead. Let's make that point clear. vStorage is the replacement (for
most backup vendors).
With vS
You can also look into capacity licensing too. This way, you ignore all the
client agents and App & DB packs and tiers, etc...
While capacity licensing is not cheap, the more you virtualize, the more you
move into multi-socket boxes, the choice makes sense. As an example a quad-CPU
box and a