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The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI provides an option to override the automatic protection engine selection and manually select the VM Direct protection engine to be used. It also enables the option to migrate the protection engine being used on an asset basis. For example, VADP is being used to back up a certain VM and now the backup admin would like to leverage TSDM so the asset protection engine can be migrated to TSDM.