Backing Up Virtual Machines

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active in one data center at a time. An export domain can use NFS or SAN (iSCSI/FCP-connected
storages).
4.1.2 How Acronis Backup works with RHEV
Acronis Backup can back up and recover virtual machines running in the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment. Backup and recovery become available by installing Agent for Linux or
Agent for Windows into the guest systems. This means that Acronis Backup will treat the virtual
machines as physical ones and provide the full scope of functionality it provides for physical
machines. This also means that operations are not possible on the machines that are powered off.
Backup and recovery (p. 36)
Using Acronis Backup Management Server, you can:
 Centrally deploy the agents onto the virtual machines managed by your RHEV Manager.
 Create and deploy centralized backup plans which the agents will execute.
 Monitor how successfully the backup plans are executed.
 Recover disks, volumes, files or entire machines to their original location or to a different
machine.
 View alerts, logs, reports, current activities and more.
In addition, you can directly manage each individual machine by connecting Acronis Backup
Management Console to it.
P2V and V2V migration (p. 41)
Acronis Backup provides several migration methods for you to easily migrate physical machines to
the RHEV environment. The methods differ in complexity and flexibility. They cover all possible
scenarios of migration. These methods can also be used to migrate a virtual machine from a different
virtualization platform to the RHEV platform.
Licensing
You need a license for each host running at least one machine that needs backing up. Taking into
account that machines migrate within a cluster, you need one license for each clustered host. An
Acronis Backup Advanced for RHEV license enables backing up an unlimited number of virtual
machines which run on the same host and an unlimited number of migrations to that host.
To install the product in the trial mode, you do not need a license key. In the trial mode, you can back
up the hosted machines during a limited time period and perform three migrations to the host.
Supported versions of RHEV
 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager: versions 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2.
 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux: versions 5.5 and higher.
Supported guest OS
Acronis Backup supports all the virtualized guest operating systems supported by RHEV.
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (32-bit and 64-bit)
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit and 64-bit)
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (32-bit and 64-bit)