While registering a database, the Group Database with One Time Machine option is selected.

Selecting Group Database with One Time Machine associates multiple SQL Server databases with one protection construct rather than separate Time Machines. Nutanix explicitly recommends grouping databases when they share protection requirements because the arrangement provides optimized RPO and improved performance. It also lets the group be protected, cloned, and recovered consistently under one SLA and one snapshot and log-catch-up schedule. Reduced storage consumption may occur as a secondary operational effect, but it is not the documented key architectural benefit. Faster provisioning is likewise not the principal reason for creating a database group, and independent recovery contradicts the group model because the databases share the same Time Machine. Therefore, optimized RPO and performance is the only option that matches Nutanix’s documented guidance for database groups.