Information technology (IT) groups are embracing VMware to achieve server consolidation and other benefits. Iron Mountain's LiveVault® online backup and recovery is supported on virtual machines, just as it is on physical machines. Using LiveVault with VMware presents new opportunities to combine LiveVault and VMware capabilities to improve an organization's ability to respond to the range of possible data loss events, from individual file corruption to site disasters. This paper outlines the use of LiveVault and VMware to achieve excellent data protection by leveraging the benefits of each technology.