You need to understand the following facts as you upgrade to PlateSpin Forge 11.0:
Ongoing protection contracts are supported, such as
X2V or Sync2V
Live or Idle workload states
Windows or Linux workloads
Failover VM locations can be a local datastore (ds), an external ds, or a combination of both.
Failover VM components locations
.vmx files can be located on a local ds, an external ds, or a combination of both.
.vmdk files can be located on a local ds, an external ds. or a combination of both
Although the administrative computer you use to run the backup does not need to be the same machine that you use to run the restore, the outputdirectory of the backup (including all of its generated subdirectories and files) should be the same outputdirectory used in the restore.
The machine needs to have access to the outputdirectory specified in the backup and restore operations.
The machine needs to have access to the same USB storage media for the restore process as that which it accessed for the backup process.