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Deploy Agents to Virtual Machines Using Virtual Machine Deployment

Arcserve Backup Agent Deployment lets Backup Administrators and Backup Managers install and upgrade Arcserve Backup agents on local or remote virtual machines (VMs). The target VMs may or may not have a previous version of an agent installed. This method helps ensure that the release numbers of all agents running on the VMs in your Arcserve Backup environment are the same release number as the Arcserve Backup base product.

Using the Virtual Machine deployment method you can deploy the following agents and components:

• Arcserve Backup Agent for Open Files
• Arcserve Backup Agent for Virtual Machines
• Arcserve Backup Client Agent for Windows
• Arcserve Backup Diagnostic Utility

Be aware of the following:

• To install or upgrade an agent on a VM, the VM must be powered on.
• Agent Deployment installs or upgrades agents on all VMs that reside in the ESX/ESXi Server system and the Hyper-V host system.

Note: Before you complete the following task, see Remote Deployment Considerations.

To deploy agents to virtual machines using Virtual Machine Deployment

1. Open the Arcserve Backup Manager Console.

   From the Quick Start Menu, select Administration and click Agent Deployment.

   Arcserve Backup Agent Deployment starts and the Login Server dialog opens.

2. Complete the required fields in the Login Server dialog, and click Next.
3. From the Methods dialog, select Virtual Machine deployment, and click Next.
4. From the Components dialog, select the agents that you want to install on all remote computers, and click Next.
5. Specify the names of remote computers that contain the VMs in the Host Information dialog by doing one of the following:
   • Click Import to import a list of remote computers from a text file.

     Note: The host names must be separated the new line delimiter. You can import multiple text files, however, the total number of remote computers must be less than or equal to 1000.

   • Click Refresh to import the existing VMs from the Arcserve Backup database.
   • Specify the remote host name in the Host Name field and click Add. Repeat this step as necessary until all required host names appear in the Host column.

   After the host names appear in the Host column, continue to the next step.

   Note: You can specify up to 1000 remote computers. To deploy agents to more than 1000 remote computers, you can restart Agent Deployment and repeat this task, or, run Agent Deployment from an alternate Arcserve Backup primary server or stand-alone server.

6. Specify the user name and password for each remote host by doing the following:
   1. Click the check box next to a host name to select it.
   2. Click the UserName field next to the host name and type the user name in the format <domain>\<user name>.
   3. Click the Password field and type the password.

   Note: If the user name and password are the same for all remote computers, select all of the check boxes. Under For all selected hosts, type the user name in the User field in the format <domain>\<user name>, type the password in the Password field, then click Apply Credentials.

7. Click the Allow the Remote Registry service to run for the duration of the remote installation process option. This option lets Agent Deployment retrieve information about the target computers and verify that credentials specified are correct.

   Note: This option lets the Remote Registry service run only during the remote installation process.

8. To remove a host from the Host and Credentials list, click the check box next to the host name, and click Remove.
9. Click Next.

   Agent Deployment validates the information for all specified hosts. If no authentication errors are detected, pending appears in the Status field. If an authentication error is detected, click Failed in the Status field to discover the reason. You must correct all Failed messages to continue.

10. After the Status field for all hosts displays Pending or Verified, click Next.
11. In the Setup Summary dialog, verify the components and the host names specified, and click Next.
12. In the Installation Status dialog, click Install.

    Agent Deployment installs or upgrades the Arcserve Backup agents on the specified hosts.

    After all installations and upgrades are complete, the Installation Report dialog opens.

13. Do one of the following:
    • If there are remote computers that require a restart, click Next, then click Restart.
    • If there are no remote computers that require a restart, click Finish.
14. In the Restart dialog, click the check box next to the remote host that you want to restart now, and click Restart.

    Optionally, click the All check box to restart all remote computers now.

    Note: To create a list of remote computers that require a restart, click Export Restart Report.

15. After the Status field for all remote computers displays complete, click Finish.

    The Arcserve Backup agents are deployed on the VMs.