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How to Browse Virtual Machine Backup Volumes
The Backup Manager lets you browse and view information about the VM objects that follow in a directory tree structure:
- Backup proxy systems
- VMware ESX/ESXi Server systems
- VMware vCenter Server systems
- Microsoft Hyper-V host systems
To have the capability to browse VMware and Hyper-V VMs, you must execute ARCserve VMware Configuration Tool and ARCserve Hyper-V Configuration Tool. The aforementioned tools populate the CA ARCserve Backup database with information about the data contained in the VMs, which allows you to browse the VMs in the Backup Manager.
Be aware of the limitations that follow:
- You can browse the volumes in the VMware VMs when the VM is running a VMware-supported Windows-based operating system.
- You can browse the volumes in the Hyper-V VMs when you install the Agent for Virtual Machine in the Hyper-V VMs. With this configuration, you do not need to execute ARCserve Hyper-V Configuration Tool to browse the volumes in the Hyper-V VMs.
- From the Backup Manager window with the Source tab selected, the VMware Systems object can be expanded to display the names of the VMware Systems, the backup proxy systems, the ESX Server system or the vCenter Server system, and the VM volumes contained in the Windows operating system.
At the VM level, you can browse in raw mode (full VM) or file mode.
To browse a VM at the file level, a VMware supported Windows operating system must be installed on the VM.
- The browsing modes are as follows:
- Windows VMs--file mode and raw mode (full VM)
- Non-Windows VMs--raw mode (full VM) only
The following screen illustrates browsing Hyper-V VMs:
The following screen illustrates browsing VMware VMs:
