Multinode Backup Copy for the VMware Agent

When you add multiple proxies to a VMware instance or subclient, backup copy operations automatically distribute the VMs in a backup copy job across the available proxies. No other configuration is required to enable multinode backup copies.

For the Virtual Server Agent with VMware, multinode backup copy operations are available with the following vendors and engines:

Vendor	Engine
Dell EMC Storage Center (DSM)	Dell EMC Storage Center Snap (DSM)
Dell EMC VNX / CLARiiON	Dell EMC VNX / CLARiiON SnapView Clone Dell EMC VNX / CLARiiON SnapView / VNX Snap
Dell EMC XtremIO	Dell EMC XtremIO Snap
Dell EqualLogic	Dell EqualLogic Snap
IBM SVC	IBM SVC FlashCopy IBM SVC Space-efficient FlashCopy
Hitachi Vantara	Hitachi Shadow Image (CCI) Hitachi Thin Image (CCI)
HPE XP P9500	Hitachi Shadow Image (CCI)* Hitachi Thin Image (CCI)*
HPE XP XP7	Hitachi Shadow Image (CCI)* Hitachi Thin Image (CCI)*
HPE Nimble Storage	HPE Nimble Storage Snap
INFINIDAT	INFINIDAT InfiniSnap
NetApp	NetApp
Pure Storage FlashArray	Pure Storage FlashArray Snap

*Hitachi Vantara OEM