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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2 Supported virtualization platforms
The following table summarizes how various virtualization platforms are supported by Acronis
Backup.
Platform
Backup at a hypervisor
level (p. 7)
Backup from inside a
guest OS (p. 34)
VMware
VMware vSphere versions: 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0
VMware vSphere editions:
VMware vSphere Essentials
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
VMware vSphere Standard*
VMware vSphere Advanced
VMware vSphere Enterprise
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
+
+
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free ESXi)**
+
VMware Server (VMware Virtual server)
VMware Workstation
VMware ACE
VMware Player
+
Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 (x64) with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008/2008 R2
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2
Windows 8, 8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V
Windows 10 with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V
+
+
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and 2007
Windows Virtual PC
+
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
+
Citrix
Citrix XenServer 4.1.5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and
6.5
Only fully virtualized
(aka HVM) guests
Red Hat and Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2,
3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5
+