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Considerations for installing third-party software on a VMware backup proxy
Considerations for installing third-party software on a VMware backup proxy
Updated over 9 months ago

Enterprise Workloads Editions: βœ… Business | βœ… Enterprise | βœ… Elite

Overview

We don't recommend installing any third-party software on a VMware backup proxy because it may interfere with the VMware backups and restores. However, if you must install third-party software on the proxy, we recommend excluding specific Druva binaries and directories from the third-party software. We also recommend adding the port required for communication between the VMware backup proxy and Druva Cloud to the allow list.

Port safelisting

Protocol

Port

Description

TCP/IP

443

Safelist all outgoing traffic from VMware backup proxy to port 443 for *.druva.com

Directory exclusions

Directories

/opt/Druva/

/var/log/Phoenix/
​/var/log/Druva/EnterpriseWorkloads/

/var/Phoenix/

/var/Druva/

/etc/Phoenix/

/etc/Druva/EnterpriseWorkloads/

/mnt/<flr>/

/usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib-6.0.3/

/usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib-6.5.2/

/usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib-7.0.0/

/tmp/vmware-root/

/etc/environment

/tmp/mount/Phoenix_*

/tmp/source/Phoenix_*

/mnt/flr*

/usr/lib/vmware*

Binary exclusions

Binaries

enable_vmotion

fileEncodingUtility

flrFuse

guestossvc.exe

Phoenix

PhoenixActivate

PhoenixClientDebugConsole

PhoenixCredMigration

PhoenixDRFailbackAgent

PhoenixFailbackRestServer

PhoenixSetKrbTicket

PhoenixSQLGuestPlugin.exe

PhoenixVMWareAgentProxyConf

ProxyConf

proxyFirstBoot

proxySetup

RoboUpgrader

set_static_ip.bat

vCenterDetail

vixDiskUtility

vmcontrol

vmFuse

vmwareDiagnosticUtility

Additional considerations

Ensure that the VMware backup proxy meets the prerequisites in Prerequisites to install the backup proxy article. Additionally, ensure that the resources on the VMware backup proxy are sufficient for the security software and itself.

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