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32 VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced provides a good example of how a fully virtualized backup strategy can simplify life for IT admins, and make sure the virtualized environment is ready for fast disaster recovery. With virtu- alized backup integrated into the virtualized data center, IT can: ✓ Manage backup operations across all virtual machines from a unified UI ✓ Perform agentless virtual machine backup and recovery ✓ Back up application data on virtual and physical servers ✓ Replicate virtual machine and application backups for disaster recovery ✓ Reduce backup storage footprint through advanced data deduplication ✓ Recover from data disasters quickly with Changed Block Tracking technology ✓ Meet infrastructure SLAs ✓ Reduce total cost of ownership through simple per- CPU licensing and support How it works VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ Advanced is a disk- based backup solution, deployed as a pre-built, Linux-based virtual appliance. During a backup, the software creates a full-image snapshot of the virtual machine. Data deduplica- tion is performed with every backup operation to optimize storage space. The vSphere® Hypervisor web UI is used to select, schedule, configure and manage backups. Specific virtual machines or virtual machine disk (.vmdk) files can