There is no application which "requires" you to back up the entire vSAN datastore. This may be something you have internally decided on based upon limited understanding, but it's not legitimate. When you say "pivotal" you're talking about a company, not a product. Are we talking PAS? PKS? Something else? Regardless of either of those two, you do not need to back up the entire datastore to protect those workloads. They each have data protection methods available that don't entail such measures.
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