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In the Data Manager Appliance, assets are the basic units that the Data Manager Appliance protects. Asset sources are the mechanism that the Data Manager Appliance uses to manage assets and communicate with the Protection Storage where backup copies of the assets are stored.
Asset sources can be a vCenter server, Kubernetes cluster, application host, or Cloud Snapshot Manager tenant. Assets can be virtual machines, Microsoft Exchange Server databases, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Oracle databases, SAP HANA databases, file systems, Kubernetes namespaces, and NAS shares.