Backing Up Virtual Machines
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this document
- 2 Supported virtualization platforms
- 3 Backup at a hypervisor level
- 3.1 Features and capabilities
- 3.2 Limitations
- 3.3 What does a virtual machine backup store?
- 3.4 Working in VMware vSphere
- 3.4.1 Getting started with Agent for VMware
- 3.4.2 Installation of Agent for VMware
- 3.4.3 Operations with agents
- 3.4.4 Flexible configuration of the agents
- 3.4.5 Using a locally attached storage
- 3.4.6 Configuring ESX(i)-related options
- 3.4.7 Support for VM migration
- 3.4.8 Support for datastore clusters and Storage DRS
- 3.4.9 Backing up fault tolerant machines
- 3.4.10 Backing up independent disks and RDMs
- 3.4.11 Backing up virtual machine templates
- 3.4.12 Privileges for VM backup and recovery
- 3.5 Working in Microsoft Hyper-V
- 3.6 Backing up Linux logical volumes and MD devices
- 3.7 File-level recovery
- 3.8 Virtual machines on a management server
- 3.9 VM-specific backup and recovery options
- 3.10 Limitations for backup and recovery options
- 4 Backup from inside a guest OS
- 4.1 Working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- 4.1.1 Overview of the RHEV platform
- 4.1.2 How Acronis Backup works with RHEV
- 4.1.3 Backup and recovery of RHEV virtual machines
- 4.1.4 Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine
- 4.1 Working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Table of contents
1 About this document .......................................................................................................4
2 Supported virtualization platforms ...................................................................................5
3 Backup at a hypervisor level .............................................................................................7
3.1 Features and capabilities ........................................................................................................... 7
3.2 Limitations ................................................................................................................................. 8
3.3 What does a virtual machine backup store? ............................................................................. 9
3.4 Working in VMware vSphere ..................................................................................................... 9
3.4.1 Getting started with Agent for VMware........................................................................................................ 9
3.4.2 Installation of Agent for VMware................................................................................................................. 11
3.4.3 Operations with agents................................................................................................................................. 12
3.4.4 Flexible configuration of the agents ............................................................................................................ 14
3.4.5 Using a locally attached storage................................................................................................................... 15
3.4.6 Configuring ESX(i)-related options ............................................................................................................... 16
3.4.7 Support for VM migration ............................................................................................................................ 19
3.4.8 Support for datastore clusters and Storage DRS ........................................................................................ 19
3.4.9 Backing up fault tolerant machines ............................................................................................................. 20
3.4.10 Backing up independent disks and RDMs ................................................................................................... 20
3.4.11 Backing up virtual machine templates ........................................................................................................ 21
3.4.12 Privileges for VM backup and recovery ....................................................................................................... 21
3.5 Working in Microsoft Hyper-V .................................................................................................23
3.5.1 Getting started with Agent for Hyper-V ...................................................................................................... 23
3.5.2 Backing up clustered Hyper-V machines ..................................................................................................... 25
3.5.3 Backing up pass-through disks ..................................................................................................................... 26
3.5.4 Backing up and recovering a Hyper-V host ................................................................................................. 27
3.5.5 Support for Hyper-V 3.0 ................................................................................................................................ 28
3.6 Backing up Linux logical volumes and MD devices ..................................................................29
3.7 File-level recovery ....................................................................................................................30
3.8 Virtual machines on a management server .............................................................................31
3.9 VM-specific backup and recovery options ...............................................................................32
3.9.1 Simultaneous VM backup ............................................................................................................................. 32
3.9.2 VM power management .............................................................................................................................. 33
3.10 Limitations for backup and recovery options ..........................................................................33
4 Backup from inside a guest OS ....................................................................................... 34
4.1 Working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization .....................................................................34
4.1.1 Overview of the RHEV platform ................................................................................................................... 34
4.1.2 How Acronis Backup works with RHEV ....................................................................................................... 35
4.1.3 Backup and recovery of RHEV virtual machines ......................................................................................... 36
4.1.4 Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine .................................................................................... 41