7.2 VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced
vSAN interoperates with VMware vSphere Data Protection™ Advanced, a backup and recovery solution designed for vSphere environments and powered by EMC Avamar. vSphere Data Protection Advanced provides agentless backup and recovery of virtual machines running on VMware vSphere VMFS, NFS, and vSAN datastores. Backups are deduplicated using a variable-length segment algorithm, resulting in a significant reduction in backup data storage capacity consumption. Backup data can also be moved offsite using reliable, secure, network-efficient replication.
vSphere Data Protection Advanced uses VMware vSphere APIs that enable a product to back up virtual machines from a central backup server or virtual machine, without requiring agents or processing to be done inside each virtual machine.