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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager provides software-defined data protection, automated discovery, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. PowerProtect Data Manager enables users to:
PowerProtect Data Manager provides a consistent protection experience for VMware environments. Data Manager is the only solution to provide native vSphere integration with vCenter for virtual machine protection, offering storage and backup admins, and virtual machine owners to choose a storage policy to apply to every virtual machine automatically when it is instantiated.