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The Data Manager Appliance provides a consistent protection experience for VMware environments. The Data Manager Appliance provides native vSphere integration with vCenter for VM protection, offering storage and backup administrators, and VM owners, to choose a storage policy to apply to every VM automatically when it is instantiated. With Data Manager Appliance 5.13.0.0, encryption in-flight for VMware VM workloads is supported.
The Data Manager Appliance integration with virtual machines helps to manage, protect, and reuse virtual machine data across the enterprise by deploying services to accomplish the following tasks: