Installing CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby › Prerequisite Installation Tasks

Prerequisite Installation Tasks

Before you install CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby, complete the following prerequisite tasks:

• Verify that the latest supported release of CA ARCserve D2D is installed on the following:
  • The source servers that you want to protect
  • The server that you designate to store recovery point snapshots

    Note: This requirement applies to only to Hyper-V servers that are configured to monitor the health of nodes (physical or virtual machine), and to store the recovery point snapshots for the nodes.

  • The server that you designate to monitor the source servers

  Note: If you installed CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager in your production environment, you can install CA ARCserve D2D on remote nodes using D2D Deployment. For more information, see the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager User Guide.

• In Hyper-V environments, verify that CA ARCserve D2D is installed on the Hyper-V host system. In Hyper-V environments, Hyper-V host systems function as the storage location for recovery point snapshots and as the monitor server.
• In VMware environments, verify that CA ARCserve D2D is installed on the proxy system.

  Note: In VMware environments, the target ESX Server data store functions as the storage location for recovery point snapshots. The proxy system can optionally function as the monitor server.

• Review the Release Notes file. The Release Notes file contains a description of system requirements, supported operating systems, and a list of issues that are known to exist with this release.
• Verify that your system meets the minimum software and hardware requirements that are required to install CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby.
• 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 Virtual Standby.
• Verify that your account has VMware vCenter or ESX Server administrative privileges and Windows administrative privileges. The account requires 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 CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby in your possession.
• Verify that you have the host names or IP address of the computers that you want to monitor the source computers in your possession.
• Verify that you have the host names or IP address of the computers where you want to store recovery point snapshots in your possession.
• Verify that you have all the licenses that are required to install CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby available to you.
• Verify that the CA ARCserve D2D release number is the same release number as CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby.
• 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.