Installing CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby › Installation Considerations

Installation Considerations

Before you install CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby, 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.

• 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 Virtual Standby proxy systems.

  If you want to use a newer 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
    

• CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby does not support creating virtual disk images on compressed volumes and volumes that are encrypted by the file system.

  Note: This limitation applies to only Hyper-V hypervisors.

• CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby does not support protecting VMware virtual machines that are named using JIS2004 Unicode characters.
• CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby does not support protecting virtual machines that have a disk size that is greater than two terabytes.