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Protecting an ESX server to an ESX server

Use this process to protect a virtual machine on an ESX server, where you want to protect the host-level virtual disk files (the .vmdk files), to a virtual server on an ESX server. In this scenario, you have several steps to complete.

  1. Port configuration—You must configure your ESX servers, your VirtualCenter server(s), and the machine running the Double-Take Availability for VMware Infrastructure service. These steps only need to be performed once.
  2. Root or non-root login configuration—You must configure your ESX servers for either root or non-root login. These steps only need to be performed once.
  3. Establish protection—Use these instructions to configure your ESX to ESX protection job.
  4. Optional ESX protection settings—Optional settings can be configured at the end of your protection job creation or after the job has been established.