VMware Consolidated Backup offloads backup tasks from ESX Server systems to one or more dedicated backup proxies, thus reducing the load on the ESX Server systems and improving manageability. It provides highly flexible backup and restore capabilities, from full image backups (for any guest operating system) to full and incremental file-based backups (for Microsoft Windows guest operating systems). VMware Consolidated Backup adds a substantial suite of backup-related features to VMware Infrastructure.