Introducing CA ARCserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Agents › Agent for Virtual Machines › Installing and Configuring the Agent › Prerequisite Components

Prerequisite Components

The agent requires the following prerequisite components.

• For VMware environments, ensure that Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2 or higher is installed and running on the backup proxy system.
• For VMware environments, ensure that VMware VCB Framework is installed on the backup proxy system.
• To integrate with VMware vSphere, the components listed below must be installed on the backup proxy systems:
  • This release of CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Virtual Machines.
  • VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 1.1 or later, VMware VCB Framework 1.5 Update 1, or both.

  Note: As a best practice, you should always install the latest version of VMware VDDK and VMware VCB. The latest version of VMware VDDK is 1.1.1.