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This white paper provides insights on how to protect and restore VMware virtual machines using transparent snapshots, available with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. This document details the architecture and life cycle of transparent snapshots and describes how this new capability integrates with PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. It also includes an overview of the process for backing up and restoring VMs, along with architectural explanation and full break down of backup and resotre workflows and processes.