VCB for VMware Infrastracture 3: Five Things to Know

Scott Herold, a VMware Authorised Consultant and the owner of vmguru.com, has written an article devoted to VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup). The article serves as a guide to those who haven’t yet evaluated this component of VI3.

Scott describes VCB and its functions and gives ready ways to use it. he emphasizes that VCB is a platform, not simply a solution or an application designed for backup purposes.

“VCB was specifically designed to off-load the backup process from the host to a secondary proxy server to help improve the performance of the overall system”, says Scott. “The VCB framework incorporates a centralized Windows machine as a proxy server, which can be leveraged by third-party backup vendors to allow our backup applications to complete file and/or image-level backups”.

You can read the original article here.