Hello,

Here are some insights on the information that you were looking from

- who/what provides the FLR agent installation source

The FLR agent is being copied over to the respective VM by the proxy which is selected for the restore process.

- can it be downloaded and distributed and kept at latest version with guests native and centralized software tools

You can copy it from the vProxy host and pre-install it over to the VM's. The installation files somewhere inside the /opt/emc/vproxy folder. If you are doing this then you will have to maintain the versions in case you upgrade the proxy.

These are the high level steps :

The restore when triggered is all handled by the vProxy,

• First FLR agent is installed on the target VM, if the agent is installed it makes sure that the service is started.
• Next the image for selected VM is imported as NFS from the Data Domain and attached to the ESX hosting the VM at that moment. So this needs a NFS port open to the DD.
• A temporary datastore is created from the mounted NFS
• Then vmdk from the NFS Datastore is then mounted to the respective VM, the mounting of the FS is done by the FLR agent that is the reason why Administrator/root credentials are requested during on the restore wizard.
• Once the FS is mounted, you can browse the files/folder and restore the files that you need.

 

Here is a video on FLR - https://youtu.be/NzFSaSWZr94