Step 3. Select Location for Proxy Appliance

At the Ready step of the wizard, select an ESX(i) host on which you want to place the proxy appliance. When the restore process starts, Veeam Backup Free Edition will register the proxy appliance on the ESX(i) host and mount disks of the restored VM to this proxy appliance. The file system tree of the restored VM will be displayed in the file browser. After you restore necessary files and finish working with the file browser, the VM disks will be unmounted from the proxy appliance, and the proxy appliance will be deleted from the ESX(i) host.

To locate the appliance:

1. Click Customize at the bottom of the window.
2. In the FLR Appliance Configuration window, select an ESX(i) host on which the proxy appliance must be registered.
3. In the Resource pool field, specify a resource pool to which the proxy appliance must be placed.
4. In the Network section, specify an IP address and other network settings for the proxy appliance. The proxy appliance must be placed in the same network where the backup server resides.
5. To enable FTP access to the restored file system, select the Enable FTP server on appliance check box. As a result, users will be able to access the proxy appliance via FTP, browse the file system of the restored VM and download necessary files on their own.
6. If you are performing restore of a VM with the Novell Storage services file system, select the Restore Novell Storage Services file system check box. Veeam Backup Free Edition will deploy a specific proxy appliance that supports the Novell file system.
7. Click OK.