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TSDM is a new protection mechanism in Data Manager v19.9 and later designed to replace the VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) protection mechanism for both crash-consistent and SQL application-aware virtual machine protection.
The advantages of using the TSDM protection mechanism for virtual machine data protection including:
Starting with Data Manager 19.13, encrypted virtual machines (vmCrypt) can be protected and recovered using TSDM. This support is from vSphere 8.0p01 or higher with these limitations:
See the VMware Virtual Machine Protection using Transparent Snapshots White Paper for more details.