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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Platform
Backup at a hypervisor
level (p. 7)
Backup from inside a
guest OS (p. 34)
Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM)
+
Parallels
Parallels Workstation
+
Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal
+
Oracle
Oracle VM Server 3.0 and 3.3
+
Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.x
+
* The Standard edition does not support Hot-add so backups may run slower.
** Backup at a hypervisor level is not supported for vSphere Hypervisor because this product
restricts access to Remote Command Line Interface (RCLI) to read-only mode. The agent works
during the vSphere Hypervisor evaluation period while no serial key is entered. Once you enter a
serial key, the agent stops functioning.