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i have buy two license of vmprotect 8 beacause i have two esxi 5.1 host with local storage and one server phisical with vsphere and one qnap for replica. i don't know if instal vmprotect as appliance or windows agent on phisical server... wich best choise ? i don't have problem with memory or performance. i think if i install windows agent is better when esxi host where vmprotect is install was down i cant restore vm right ?? or i can run vm direct from backup repository ?

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Hi Mattia,

The Windows Agent is the best choice when you have a shared storage (iSCSI/FC) used as datastore - in this case you can attach the SAN LUNs to the Windows machine where you install vmProtect and the data will be read in LAN-free mode directly from the datastores. In other cases Virtual Appliance is a more preferred method, i.e. you deploy Virtual Appliance to the host which VMs you want to back up and appliance will be reading the virtual disks directly using disk-attach method (again in LAN-free mode).

Run VM from Backup functionality works with the archives themselves (no matter whether you use Windows Agent or Virtual Appliance) with any backup repository excluding Online Backup and FTP/sFTP locations. This means that you can mount a VM if it's backup archive is located on a network share or on local storage available to the vmProtect Agent (Windows Agent or Virtual Appliance).

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager

thanks for information!! i install acrnis as appliance i tow host for read data directly form local datastore and i send backup from phisical server with nfs share or microsft icsci