Which tool can be used to backup and restore workloads on clusters provisioned by vSphere...

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).