Is there a way to make sure that the backup uses the av proxy that is on the same host as the VM to backup without actually pinning both to a particular host?

I was having issues with a VM on an NFS datastore that failed during the snapshot removal. When the proxy and VM were on different hosts, it would take about 45 seconds to remove the snap. This went to 4 seconds when they were on the same host.

We are also having problems with application disconnects because of the stun times during snapshot removal. I believe this is all related.