Backup Exec 2012: What is the difference between Agent for Hyper-V and Agent for VMware

[Typeroon]

The BE 2012 Administration Guide discuss both.    It is pretty clear what the VMware agent does but when I read about the Hyper-V agent, it seems to be the same thing.    Or I did not understand at all.

Thanks for clarifying this for me.

[lmosla · Accepted solution]

Hello Typeroon,

The Hyper-V agent (Microsoft) is designed specifically for backing up Hyper-V architecture and VMware is designed for protecting a vSphere architecture

[pkh]

The two agents are for two different hypervisors.  These hypervisors are different.  However, their function is similiar, i.e., they are used to backup the VM's under these hypervisors.

[Typeroon]

ok Thank you very much.   I did not know what Hyper-V was.     I tought it was something related to VMware (some kind of VMware subsystem or anything like that).    Since we are using VMware ESX 5.51 host, I only need to focus on the VMware agent and forget the Hyper-V agent.

Thanks again for the quick clarification you provided.