A vSphere administrator needs to backup a virtual machine that has a Microsoft SQL Server Database installed. Which solution allows for an application quiesce to occur during backup?

VMware vCenter Converter is a physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migration tool; it does not perform ongoing backups or interact with VSS for application quiescing.

vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a disaster recovery orchestration product focused on replication and failover automation, not application-consistent VM backup.

vSphere Replication continuously replicates VM disk data to a target site for DR purposes but does not coordinate application quiescing with VSS for backup consistency.

vSphere Data Protection Advanced leverages VMware Tools and the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) framework to signal SQL Server to quiesce its transaction logs and flush in-flight writes before a backup snapshot is taken, ensuring a transactionally consistent and recoverable backup.