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Data Manager 19.7 onwards introduces ability to protect Kubernetes workloads on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG). VMware vSphere 7U1 re-architectures vSphere with native Kubernetes as its control plane. A TKG cluster is a Kubernetes cluster that runs inside the virtual machines on supervisor layer which allows to run Kubernetes with consistency. It is enabled through the TKG service for VMware vSphere and is upstream-complaint with open-source Kubernetes (guest cluster). The guest cluster is a consistent Kubernetes cluster that runs on VMs and consists of its control-plane VM, management plane VM, worker nodes, pods, and containers.
Note: For more information about Dell PowerProtect Data Manager protecting VMware Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, see the document PowerProtect Data Manager: Protecting VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters.