Differences in ActiveImage Protector's backup methods

Differences between ActiveImage Protector's agent-based and agentless backup methods are outlined below. 

	Agent-based	Agentless
Installation of ActiveImage Protector agents on the individual virtual machines.	Required	Not required
Physical environment	Supported	Not supported
Virtual environments	Supported	Supported
File Backup	Supported	Not supported
Supported hypervisors	Hyper-V VMware vSphere ESXi Citrix Hypervisor Proxmox VE Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor	Hyper-V VMware vSphere ESXi
Checkpoints on virtual environment / Snapshot feature	Not required	Required
Backup Source	Disk Volume (Partition)	Disk
System Recovery	Supported in the boot environment Use HyperRecovery	Use HyperRecovery
Overwrite recovery to virtual environment	Supported	Unsupported
Stability of backup process	High （insusceptible to the effect of hypervisor's behavior）	Medium （susceptible to the effect of hypervisor's behavior）

Target Product

- ActiveImage Protector 2022 Server / Virtual

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