Deployment Guide

7. On the License Agreement page, click I accept the terms in the license agreement, and then click Next.
The Prerequisites page appears.
8. The Rapid Recovery Agent Installer verifies the existence of the prerequisite files.
● If the prerequisite files exist, a message appears indicating that all prerequisites are installed on the machine.
● If the prerequisite files do not exist, the Rapid Recovery Agent Installer identifies which files are needed and displays the
results accordingly; for example, CRT 2013 (x64) ENU (distributable code for Microsoft Visual Studio
®
), or Microsoft
System CLR Types for SQL Server 2008 R2 (x64). Click Install Prerequisites.
9. When the installation of the prerequisite files is completed, click Next.
The Installation Options page appears.
10. On the Installation Options page, review the installation options. If necessary, modify them as described below.
● In the Destination Folder text field, review the destination folder for the installation. If you want to change the location,
do the following:
○ Click the folder icon.
○ In the Browse to Destination Folder dialog box, select a new location.
○ Click OK.
● In the Port Number text field, enter a port number to use for communication between the Agent software on the
protected machine and the Rapid Recovery Core.
NOTE: The default value is 8006. If you change the port number, be sure to make note of it in the event that you
need to adjust configuration settings at a later time.
● Select Allow Agent to automatically send diagnostic and usage information to Dell Inc. to send diagnostic and
usage information to Dell. If you do not want to send this information, clear this option.
11. Once you are satisfied with the installation options, click Install.
The Progress page appears, and includes a status bar that lets you monitor the progress of the installation.
When the installation is complete, the Completed page appears. Skip to Step 12. .
12. On the Completed page, if you see a message indicating that the system must be restarted before the installation takes
effect, perform one of the following steps:
● To restart now, select Yes, I want to restart my computer now.
● To restart later, clear the Yes, I want to restart my computer now option.
13. On the Completed page, click Finish.
The installer wizard closes, and the Agent installation is complete.
Deploying the Rapid Recovery Agent software to one or more
machines
You can simplify the task of deploying the Rapid Recovery Agent software to one or more Windows machines by using the
Deploy Agent Software Wizard.
NOTE: In the past, this feature was referred to as "bulk deploy."
When you use the Deploy Agent Software Wizard, Rapid Recovery can automatically detect machines on a host and let you
select the machines to which you want to deploy. For machines on domains or hosts other than Active Directory or vCenter or
ESX(i), you can manually connect to individual machines by using their IP addresses and the appropriate credentials. You can
also push upgrades of the software to machines that the local Rapid Recovery Core already protects.
From within the Core Console, you can complete any of the following tasks:
● Deploying to machines on an Active Directory domain on page 28
● Deploying to machines on a VMware vCenter/ESX(i) virtual host on page 28
NOTE:
Dell recommends limiting the number of machines to which you deploy simultaneously to 50 or fewer, to preclude
experiencing resource constraints that may cause the deploy operation to fail.
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