Overall system architecture

Milestone XProtect VMS products are state-of-the-art products designed for medium- to large-scale high-security installations. The XProtect VMS products consist of several components that can be installed across multiple servers in a single installation (site), as well as supporting Milestone Federated Architecture and Milestone Interconnect to support VMS installations that are distributed over multiple sites. That said, all components can also be installed on the same single server if the server can support the combined load.

Not all components are needed in all installations if the functionality they offer is not needed. For instance, the failover recording servers, which can take over recording if a standard recording server fails, and the mobile server, which provides access to XProtect^® Web Client and XProtect^® Mobile client, are optional components. Likewise, if the users only access the VMS using XProtect Web Client and/or XProtect Mobile client, the XProtect^® Smart Client does not need to be installed.