How vSphere Integrates with Previous Releases of the Agent

In addition to the protection provided by this release of the agent, you can perform the operations that follow:

Back up file level data and raw (full VM) data using Arcserve Backup r12.5 with VMware VDDK in an environment that is running older version of ESX Server or VirtualCenter Server.
Restore raw (full VM) data, file level data, and recover VMs using data that was backed up with Arcserve Backup r12, Arcserve Backup r12 SP1, Arcserve Backup r12 SP2, Arcserve Backup r12.5, Arcserve Backup r12.5 SP1, Arcserve Backup r15, or Arcserve Backup r15 SP1 using VDDK.

Note: For information about that tasks that you can perform using vSphere, see Tasks You Can Perform Using vSphere.