Steve, VMware has announced the end of availability for VCB. You can see the VMware support policy at http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/eos.html There is a new backup product strategy called 'vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP). See http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/eos.html The announcement goes on to say "We have also been working with several backup partners to integrate VADP into their solutions to make backup of vSphere Virtual Machines fast, efficient and easy to deploy compared to VCB and other backup solutions. Several of our major backup partners have already released VADP integrated backup products and we expect most of the major backup partners to have VADP integrated backup software by the upcoming feature release of the vSphere platform in 2010."
Best wishes, Keith Arbogast Indiana University