Off-host data protection plans

Replication, validation, and cleanup are usually performed by the protection agent that performs the backup. This puts additional load on the machine on which the agent is running, even after the backup process is complete. To offload the machine, you can create off-host data protection plans – that is, separate plans for replication, validation, cleanup, and conversion to a virtual machine.

With the off-host data protection plans, you can do the following:

• Choose different agents for the backup and off-host data protection operations
• Schedule the off-host data processing operations during off-peak hours to minimize the network bandwidth consumption
• Schedule the off-host data processing operations during non-business hours, if you do not want to install a dedicated agent for off-host data processing

If you are using a storage node, we recommended that you install a dedicated agent the machine with the node.