VMware Data Protection (VDP) was a backup and recovery solution offered as part of the vSphere suite, powered by EMC Avamar. VMware announced End of Availability (EOA) for VDP in 2017, and End of General Support (EOGS) was announced for March 2020, meaning existing deployments will be supported only until that date.
VMware Data Protection provided the following capabilities:
Agentless backup and recovery of virtual machine images
Application-aware backup for Microsoft applications
Variable-length deduplication across all virtual machines in the same virtual appliance
Backup verification
One-step recovery
Restore virtual machine directly to host when vCenter Server is offline
Faster restore with Change Blog Tracking