Deployment Scenario

Advanced Deployment [title]

In large-scale virtual environments with a large number of jobs, the load on the backup server is heavy. In this case, it is recommended that you use the advanced deployment scenario that moves backup workloads to dedicated backup infrastructure components. Here, the backup server functions as a "manager" for deploying and maintaining backup infrastructure components. [rationale]

With the advanced deployment scenario, you can easily meet your current and future data protection requirements. You can horizontally expand your backup infrastructure in a matter of minutes to match the amount of data you want to process and the available network throughput. Instead of growing the number of backup servers or constantly tuning job scheduling, you can install multiple backup infrastructure components and distribute the backup workload among them. The installation process is fully automated, which simplifies the deployment and maintenance of the backup infrastructure in your virtual environment. [advantages]

The advanced deployment includes the following components: [components]

• Virtual infrastructure servers — VMware vSphere hosts used as the source and target for backup, replication and VM copy.
• Backup server — the configuration and management center of the backup infrastructure.
• Backup proxy — a "data mover" component used to retrieve VM data from the source datastore, to process it and to deliver to the target.
• Backup repository — a location used to store backup files, VM copies and auxiliary replica files.
• Dedicated mount servers — a component required to restore VM guest OS files and application items to the original location.
• Dedicated guest interaction proxy — a component used to deploy the runtime process in Microsoft Windows VMs.