VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 documentation for vSphere Supervisor and Kubernetes workload management specifies that Kubernetes-native backup and restore for Supervisor-provisioned clusters is performed using Velero .
From the VCF 9.0 documentation covering Supervisor Services and Kubernetes workload protection:
"For backup and restore of Kubernetes workloads deployed on clusters enabled with vSphere Supervisor, VMware supports the use of Velero to protect Kubernetes resources and persistent volumes." Velero is Kubernetes-native and integrates with the Supervisor cluster to protect:
* Namespaces
* Kubernetes objects
* Persistent volumes
* TKG clusters
The other options are incorrect for this use case:
* Site Recovery Manager (now part of VMware Live Site Recovery) protects vSphere VMs at the infrastructure level, not Kubernetes objects.
* Restic is a backup utility used by Velero internally but is not the primary supported platform tool.
* VMware Live Recovery is used for disaster recovery at the VM/site level, not Kubernetes-native backup inside Supervisor.
Document reference (VCF 9.0):
* VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 # Workload Management # Supervisor Services # Backup and Restore for Kubernetes Workloads (Velero support section).