How the Agent Protects VMware Systems

The agent lets you back up data and works best under the following circumstances:

You want to reduce resource restraints in the VMware ESX Host system.
Note: VMware ESX/ESXi is an application that manages system, storage, and network resources in multiple VM environments.
Your environment consists of VMs residing on different types of data stores.
You want to restore data at the file level or raw (full VM) level.