Chapter 1: Introducing The Agent; Introduction; How To Administer Virtual Machines To Manage Backup Operations - Computer Associates BABWBN2900E20 - BRIGHTSTOR ARC BACKUP V9 CLIENT Manual

Chapter 1: Introducing the Agent

Introduction

How to Administer Virtual Machines to Manage Backup
Operations
This section contains the following topics:
Introduction (see page 9)

How to Administer Virtual Machines to Manage Backup Operations

9)
How VMware Consolidated Backup Works
VCB Limitations (see page 13)
How the Agent Protects VMs that Reside on Local Storage and a SAN
14)
CA ARCserve Backup is a comprehensive storage solution for applications,
databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides backup and
restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, and network
clients.
Among the agents CA ARCserve Backup offers is the CA ARCserve Backup
Agent for VMware. VMware provides you with a mechanism called VMware
Consolidated Backup (VCB) that is integrated with VMware ESX Server and
VMware VirtualCenter Server. VCB lets you protect Virtual Machine (VM) files
and data. Using VCB you can offload VM backup activity to a dedicated backup
proxy system, and then use the backup and restore functionalities provided by
CA ARCserve Backup to protect Virtual Machines.
The agent lets you back up data and it works best under the following
circumstances:
■ You want to reduce resource restraints in the ESX Server system.
Note: VMware ESX Server is an application that manages system, storage,
and network resources in multiple VM environments.
■ You do not want to deploy a backup agent on your VMs.
■ Your environment consists of VMs residing on different types of data
stores.
■ You need to restore data at the file level or raw (full VM) level.
(see page 11)
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