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Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Support for Full System Scenarios

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification definition for an interface between an operating system and firmware of the virtual platform. For more information about UEFI, visit http://www.uefi.org/home/.

Arcserve RHA supports selecting a computer with UEFI firmware as the master server. However, review the following considerations:

• When you use a machine with the UEFI firmware as the master server to create a Full System HA or AR scenario, then the virtual platform must also support booting from UEFI firmware, such as ESXi 5.1.
• When you use a machine with the UEFI firmware as the master server to create a Full System DR scenario and the virtual platform does not support booting from the UEFI file system (for example, ESX 4.0), then the start VM operation fails.