can I use single netbackup policy for physical and virtual machine

Hello,

I have to take backup of one virtaul server and physical server which are having same OS (red hat linux)

my doubt is , can i use single policy in NBU to backed up the virual and physical server or should i use seperate ploicy for Virtual machine & phical server eventhough its having same OS .

kindly provide your valuable solution for the same 

regards,

Giri