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During the installation of a FileFly Agent, you must choose Choose whether to install an "Agent for Migration" or a "Gateway Agent" during the installation of a FileFly Agent. This is the essential difference:

• Agent for Migration

  moves

  - Moves files from a data source (server) to a target destination (storage); an agent must be installed on every server

  that you plan

  planning to migrate data from.

• Gateway Agent

  acts

  - Acts as a proxy between FileFly Migration agents and the destination storage location

  ; this

  . This provides access to Swarm and CloudScaler destinations when direct access

  isn't

  is not possible

  .

  .

Note that : the Gateway Agent does not migrate data. Use a Gateway Agent only when it 's is not possible for a server running a Migration Agent to have direct access to the destination storage. Examples of this include:

• You use a

  A dedicated proxy is used to connect to a cloud-based endpoint.

• Your

  The destination storage (e.g., Swarm Storage) is on another network segment, and it

  's

  is not desirable to have the source server connected directly to the destination storage network.

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