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Agentless vSphere protection

To understand how agentless vSphere protection works, see Agentless vSphere environment configuration and Agentless vSphere replication process. These two sections will explain how your environment should be configured for agentless vSphere protection and how the replication process works, which is different than the replication process for other Double-Take job types.

When you are ready to begin, you will need to complete the following steps, in order.

1. Review the Agentless vSphere requirements to make sure your environment meets the requirements.
2. Install Double-Take on your controller and replication appliances. See Installing the Double-Take replication or controller appliance.
3. Install the Double-Take Console on a Windows machine. See Installing Double-Take Availability on Windows using the installation wizard, using the Client Components Only installation option.
4. Add your controller appliance to your Double-Take Console. See Adding servers.
5. Add your licenses to your controller appliance. See Licensing a server or appliance.
6. Add your replication appliances to your controller appliance. See Adding replication appliances.
7. Create your agentless vSphere job. See Creating an agentless vSphere job.

Once your job is created and running, see the following sections to manage your job.

• Controller appliance associations properties—View and manage the associated replication appliances and manage your controller appliance's licensing.
• Managing and controlling agentless vSphere jobs—You can view status information about your job and learn how to control the job.
• Failing over agentless vSphere jobs—Use this section when a failover condition has been met or if you want to failover manually.