Installation guide

VMware vCenter integration. Specify the vCenter Server, and then enable Automatic

deployment. Any time a virtual machine is selected for backup but the agent is not installed on

its host, the Virtual Appliance will be automatically deployed on the host when the backup starts.

Agent for ESX(i) (Windows)

If your production ESX(i) hosts are so heavily loaded that running the virtual appliances is not

desirable, consider installing Agent for ESX(i) (Windows) on a physical machine outside the ESX

infrastructure.

If your ESX(i) uses a SAN attached storage, install the agent on a machine connected to the same SAN.

The agent will back up the virtual machines directly from the storage rather than via the ESX(i) host

and LAN. This capability is called a LAN-free backup.

The diagram below illustrates a LAN-based and a LAN-free backup. LAN-free access to virtual

machines is available if you have a fibre channel (FC) or iSCSI Storage Area Network. To completely

eliminate transferring the backed-up data via LAN, store the backups on a local disk of the agent's

machine or on a SAN attached storage.

Agent for ESX(i) (Windows) can be installed on any machine that runs Windows and meets the

system requirements (p. 16). Follow the instructions described in the "Interactive installation in

advanced editions" (p. 20) section.

During installation, specify the vCenter Server or ESX(i) Server whose virtual machines the agent will

back up.