By bringing backups back to the data center, the Core eliminates the requirement and infrastructure of running backups at the remote branches. Data from the branch is always synced back to the data center so you can schedule application-consistent backups of the branch VMs. Once the snapshot reaches the data center, the Core triggers the application-consistent snapshot on the supported array and automatically mounts the snapshot to a proxy host. The backup software on the storage array can then perform the backups through the proxy host in the data center.

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