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Prerequisite Installation Tasks

Before you install the application, complete the following prerequisite tasks and review the installation considerations:

Prerequisite Tasks

• Review the Release Notes. The Release Notes contain a description of system requirements, supported operating systems, and a list of issues that are known to exist with this release of the application.
• Verify that your system meets the software and hardware requirements that are required to install the application.
• Verify that changed block tracking can be enabled and is enabled on the virtual machines that you are protecting.

  Note: For more information about the changed block tracking, see the following Knowledge Base document on the VMware website:

  http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1020128
  

• Verify that your Windows account has administrator privileges or any other equal privileges to install software on the computers where you plan to install CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup.
• Verify that your vCenter Server or ESX Server account has VMware and Windows administrative privileges. Assign the account to the Global License role on the vCenter Server system or ESX Server system to allow VDDK operations to complete successfully.
• Verify that you have the user names and passwords of the computers where you are installing the application in your possession.
• Verify that CA ARCserve D2D is installed on the backup proxy system that protects the virtual machines in your production environment.
• If you want granular restore capability from your VM backup, verify that the built-in or domain administrator credentials from any user with administrative privileges are provided to log in to the virtual machine guest operating system.
• CA ARCserve Central Applications lets you install CA ARCserve D2D and upgrade the previous version to the latest version on remote nodes using the Deploy utility. To back up data on the remote nodes using the latest version of CA ARCserve D2D, you must obtain the latest version of CA ARCserve D2D licenses and apply the licenses on the nodes. If you do not apply the licenses within 31 days of the date that you installed or upgraded on the nodes, CA ARCserve D2D stops working.

Installation Considerations

Before you install CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup, review the following installation considerations:

• The CA ARCserve Central Applications installation package installs a module named CA ARCserve Central Applications Server. The server is a module that is common to all applications. The module contains the web service, binaries, and configurations that let the application communicate with each other.

  When you install the application, the installation package installs the CA ARCserve Central Applications Server module before installing the product components. If it becomes necessary to apply a patch to the application, the patch updates the module before updating the product components.

• After CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup is installed, download and install VMware VIX API version 1.11 on the backup proxy system and on the computer that is used to perform preflight checks. VMware VIX is used to perform file-level and application level restores from backup.

  Note: For VIX API 1.11, it is required that all virtual machines are updated with the most recent VMware tools.

• CA ARCserve D2D installs VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) on all computers where you install CA ARCserve D2D. You do not need to download and install VDDK on your backup proxy systems.

  If you want to use a different version of VDDK, download and install VDDK and then modify the value of the VDDKDirectory registry located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CA\CA ARCSERVE D2D to the installation folder where the new VDDK is installed.

  The default location for VDDK is as follows:

  • x64 Operating System

    c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit
    

    Note: Unzip the VDDK64.zip file from the VDDK installation directory to the VDDK64 folder.

    For example, c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit\VDDK64

  • x86 Operating System

    c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit
    

• A local installation of CA ARCserve D2D is required to perform certain restore operations. For more information, see the topic, Restore Considerations. Licenses for CA ARCserve D2D are included with CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup. To obtain the product installation files, visit CA support.
• Virtual compatibility for raw device mapping is supported but physical compatibility is not supported.