vSphere Data Protection is described as 'Backup and recovery solution designed for vSphere environments. Powered by EMC Avamar, it provides agent-less, image-level virtual machine backups to disk. It also provides application-aware protection for business-critical Microsoft applications' and is a File Recovery tool in the backup & sync category. There are eight alternatives to vSphere Data Protection for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted, UNIX Web Browser and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best vSphere Data Protection alternative is Acronis True Image. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Veeam Backup & Replication or ©XSIBackup. Other great apps like vSphere Data Protection are NAKIVO Backup & Replication, System Center Data Protection Manager, Hystax Acura and CloudBacko.