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  4. Prerequisites of instant rollback
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Prerequisites of instant rollback

The prerequisites for Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO) are also applicable to the Instant Rollback feature.

See Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO).

For NetBackup FlexScale, the software packages that instant rollback requires are included with the NetBackup FlexScale deployment. For more information, see the NetBackup Flex Scale Administrator's Guide.

If you are using instant rollback, ensure that the WORM instance can access the following ports on vCenter and ESXi servers:

Table: Port details

Instance

VMware component

Port number

WORM

vCenter

443

WORM

ESXi host(s)

902

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