Requirements for File Indexing Version 2 for Virtual Machines

VSA Proxy

File indexing is processed on virtual machines as follows:

• A Linux proxy is required to file index a Linux VM.

• A Linux proxy can file index a Windows VM, if the VM has a basic disk and an NTFS file system.

• If a Linux proxy attempts to file index a Windows VM that has a dynamic volume, a FAT/FAT-32/ReFS file system, or MS Windows storage spaces configured, the file indexing job will go to Pending state and then re-distributed to a Windows proxy on the next attempt available at the subclient level.

The FREL provides UNIX file system support for ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS, Btrfs, HFS, and HFS Plus. To enable extended file system recovery for UNIX-based virtual machines, deploy a FREL or convert a Linux MediaAgent to a File Recovery Enabler. For more information, see Converting a Linux MediaAgent to a VMware File Recovery Enabler for Linux.

Hardware Requirements

Media Agent Hardware Requirements

For MediaAgent hardware requirements, see System and Hardware Requirements.

VSA Proxy Hardware Requirements

For hardware requirements for a VSA proxy installed on either a physical or virtual machine, see Hardware Specifications for Virtual Server Agent.

File Based Recovery Cache Requirements

You must ensure that there is at least 100 GB of free disk space for the file based recovery (FBR) cache directory.

By default, the FBR cache directory is located under the Job Results directory, unless the FBR cache directory location was changed manually or was deployed from an open virtual appliance (OVA) template.

To change the FBR cache directory location, see "Additional Configuration" in Automatic Configuration of a MediaAgent as a Linux File Recovery Enabler (FREL).