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The Data Manager Appliance manages and monitors data protection and replication for Microsoft SQL Server assets through integration with the Microsoft application agent. The Microsoft application agent enables an application administrator to protect and recover the Microsoft SQL Server application data on the application host. The Data Manager Appliance integrates with the Microsoft application agent to check and monitor backup compliance against protection policies. The Data Manager Appliance also enables central scheduling for backups.
For application-aware protection, a Data Manager Appliance application-aware VM protection policy uses the Microsoft application agent to provide advanced application-consistent protection. The Microsoft application agent software package is bundled with the Data Manager Appliance and is automatically configured on a virtual machine when you add the virtual machine asset to a VM application-aware protection policy.