An application aware VM backup will simplify and speed up both the recovery process of Windows virtual machines, as there is no longer the need to have to an addition application-level backup and subsequently an application-level recovery to ensure data consistency.

During backups of Windows virtual machines on VMware and Hyper-V platforms, all data in memory and pending transactions on each virtual machine are automatically flushed to disk to guarantee a consistent data backup of the virtual machine and application data.