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Protection of VMs with VMware snapshots (or managed snapshots) are not supported for Transparent Snapshots VM backups. Once a VM is configured for Transparent Snapshots, then VM snapshots can be created without any impact to TSDM backup/restore operations.
In vSphere 7.0U3, a TSDM backup job running on a VM with managed snapshots would fail showing a CancelSnapshotRequired error. Whereas in vSphere 8.0 and later, the TSDM protection configuration job would fail with the following error: “SPIF filters change failure: One of the parameters supplied is invalid.. The IO Filter policy cannot be changed when snapshot disks are present”.