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VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) is included with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 Enterprise Edition, but I’ve blogged before how VCB can be misunderstood as the complete solution for virtual machine (VM) backup. Furthermore, VCB’s scripting and command line interface can be a surprise for system administrators who are used to and expecting a GUI and scheduler. Mostly for these reasons, VCB is usually implemented integrated with traditional agent based backup solutions or virtualization third party VM backup products. However, for those that want to try a pure VCB solution in their virtual infrastructure there are a couple of free ecosystem developed tools that claim to provide GUI features and ease of use enhancements.

This post provides some basic information on 2 free VCB tools – VCB Wrangler and vbcMC Read the rest of this entry »