Explanation/Reference:
Virtual Volumes has the following characteristics:
Virtual Volumes supports offloading a number of operations to storage hardware. These operations

include snapshotting, cloning, and Storage DRS.
With Virtual Volumes, you can use advanced storage services that include replication, encryption,

deduplication, and compression on individual virtual disks.
Virtual Volumes supports such vSphere features as vMotion, Storage vMotion, snapshots, linked

clones, Flash Read Cache, and DRS.
With Virtual Volumes, storage vendors can use native snapshot facilities to improve performance of

vSphere snapshots.
You can use Virtual Volumes with storage arrays that support vSphere APIs for Array Integration

(VAAI).
Virtual Volumes supports backup software that uses vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP).

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