VMware Consolidated Backup

VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized backup facility that leverages a centralized proxy server and reduces the load on production ESX Server hosts.

Conslidated Backup Brochure (pdf - 122Kb)

Improve Manageability and Reduce Cost with Centralized Backup

VMware Consolidated Backup enables LAN-free backup of virtual machines from a centralized Microsoft® Windows 2003 proxy server using an industry-standard backup agent. Consolidated Backup allows you to:

• Perform full and incremental file backups of virtual machines or create full image backups of virtual machines for disaster recovery.
• Centrally manage backups to simplify management of IT resources by using a single agent running on a proxy server rather than an agent on every virtual machine.
• Back up and recover the entire virtual machine image for virtual machines running any operating system or individual files and directories of virtual machines running Microsoft Windows
• Move virtual machine data from the proxy server to tape devices using built-in integrations with 3rd party products

Improve Performance with Centralized Backup

Eliminate backup traffic from your network to improve the performance of production virtual machines.

• Eliminate backup traffic with LAN-free virtual machine backup utilizing Fibre Channel tape devices.
• Reduce the load on ESX Server and allow it to run more virtual machines.

VMware Consolidated Backup is included in VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Edition and can be purchased as an add-on product to the Standard and Starter editions.