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In the Protection Engines window, deploy an external VM Direct Engine, also referred to as a VM proxy, to facilitate data movement for virtual machine protection policies:
For more details about adding multiple VLANs, see Multiple VLAN configurations.
The proxy is automatically deployed on the vCenter. Once its status shows that it is ready, you can configure VM backups.