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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition manual

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    Quick St art Gui de Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Advanced Server Virtual Editi on[...]

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    Table of Con tent s 1. Main component s .................................................................................................. 3 2. Licens e server ......................................................................................................... 3 3. Supported operat ing sys tems .................................................[...]

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    This do cument descr ibes ho w to install and start u sing Acro nis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. 1. Main componen ts Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition contains the following main compo nents. • Acronis Backup & Recov ery 10 Agen t for ESX/ ESXi : Backs up virtual machin es on a VMwar[...]

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    4 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 Acronis Backup & Recov ery 10 Agent for Hyper -V installs on Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition with Hyper - V as an add - on to Acron is Backup & Recove ry 10 Age nt for Window s. It is hig hly reco mmended th at Integration S ervice s are installed i n the g uest systems. 3.2. Licen se serv er, ma[...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 5 Below is an example of how yo u would distribute the components to protect virtual mac hine s hosted on a VMware ESX ser ver. The communica tion traf fic betw een the AMS, A LS and the A gent residing on the same ESX server g oes through it s internal switch. The agent uses th e external n etwor k to com[...]

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    6 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 5. How many license s do I ne ed? To imple m ent an y of the a bove configurati ons, you need one li cense for Acr o nis Backup & R ecovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. The license is required to run either Ag ent for ES X/ESXi or Ag ent for Hyper - V. You may want to ins tall agents on some o[...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 7 • automatically register virtual machines created by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in the vCent er invento ry • automatically deploy and configure Ag ent for ESX/ESXi to any ESX/ESXi s erver, that is no t necessaril y managed by the vCenter. The vCenter integration f unctionality i s deli vered a [...]

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    8 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 AMS VM1 VM2 VM3 VA2 ESX2 VM1 VM2 VM3 VA1 ESX1 VMware API Console VMware API Working without v Center integration The AMS contr o ls t he v irtual appliances. Each of the appliances manag e s backup and rec overy of virtua l machines hoste d on its host using VMware API. AMS VM1 VM2 VM3 VA2 ESX2 vCenter S[...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 9 7. Preparin g to s tart Make s ure that you have: • A machin e running Windows , with at least 5 1 2 MB of physical memory. • A license key for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition in a TXT or EML file. For multiple license keys, the t ext format is one lin e - one key. ?[...]

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    10 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 7. Log on to the machine as a n administrator. 8. Open the shared netw ork folder where the setu p file is. 9. Copy the folder's content to a local f older. 10. Do uble click the setup file icon. Install ing the licens e serv er Skip these steps if you are installing the trial pr oduct version. 1. [...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 11 Installing the ma nagement co nsole 1. On t he machine w here you are runni ng the VMw are vSphere clien t, double cli ck the setu p file icon. 2. Click Insta ll Acron is Backup & Re covery 10 . 3. Click Next in the w elcome window. 4. Accept the term s of the lic ense agre ement. 5. Specify the nam[...]

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    12 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 appear as not manageable (grayed o ut). To be able to back up the machines, deploy Acronis Backup & Recover y 10 Agent f or ESX/ESXi t o their hos t servers . What el se you can do View a vir tual machin e's power state (sto pped or running) in t he Po wer sta te colu mn. To v ie w a virtual ma[...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 13 4. In Type , s elect Unmanaged . 5. In Pat h , click Change and then spec ify the pat h to the netwo rk share where the backups w ill be stored. Click OK . When p rompted, p rovide ac cess creden tials for the shared folder. 6. Click OK . You c an see the vault name in t he Navi gation tree unde r Vault[...]

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    14 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 8. Click OK to crea te the backup plan . The backup s tarts immedia tely. The m achin es will be ba cked up one af ter another. 8.2.2. Monitori ng the ta sk progress and results After a short tim e during which the backu p task s are crea ted, you are ta ken to the A ll physica l machi nes view. The cor[...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 15 4. Expand t he archive from which you want to recov er a virtual machi ne and then selec t the backup. Deta ils. If there are mult iple archives in th e vault, you can find t he archive by the name of the machine you have backed up. The machine name is include d in the archi ve name. If there ar e multi[...]

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    16 Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 8.4.1. Creating a backup p olicy In this st ep, you will set up a backup policy to back up ent ire machines to the centralized vault you have create d. Such policy can be applied to physical or vir tual machines or groups of t hem. 1. In the Navi gation t ree, rig ht - click Backup polici es , and then [...]

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    Copyrig ht © Ac ronis, Inc ., 2000 - 2009 17 8.4.4. What else you can do • Create policies to back up individual v olumes of virtual machines • Schedule polic ies, set up retention r ules fo r backups c reated by the p olicies, customize p o licies usin g various backup opti ons • Apply policies to any of the groups resul ting fr om integrat[...]