Cost-Effectively Back Up Your Virtual Machines
Perform virtual machine backup at any time. VMware Consolidated Backup provides a centralized backup facility that leverages a centralized proxy server and reduces the load on production VMware ESX hosts.

Improve Manageability and Reduce Cost with Centralized Backup
VMware Consolidated Backup enables LAN-free backup of virtual machines from a centralized proxy server. Consolidated Backup allows you to:

• Integrate with existing backup tools and technologies already in place.
• Perform full and incremental file backups of virtual machines.
• Perform full image backup of virtual machines.
• Centrally manage backups to simplify management of IT resources.
  

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 tape devices.
• Reduce the load on ESX Server and allow it to run more virtual machines.
  

VMware Consolidated Backup is included in VMware Infrastructure Foundation, Standard and Enterprise editions.