Administrator's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Administrator's Guide
- 1.1 About this document
- 1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3.1 Preparation
- 1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup Management Server
- 1.3.4 Using the management console
- 1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server
- 1.3.6 Deploying Agent for VMware
- 1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.9 Checking network connections
- 1.3.10 Updating to a new version
- 1.3.11 Uninstallation
- 1.4 Logging in to the backup service
- 1.5 Administering organizations
- 1.6 Configuring the backup service
- 1.7 Generating usage reports
- 1.8 Collecting logs
- 1.9 Advanced cases
- 1.10 Security and customization
- 2 User's Guide
- 3 Terminology reference
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When connecting from an internal network: <BackupServiceAddress> is the fully
qualified domain name, or the IP address of the Agent for vCloud host in this network.
For example, https://vcloudagent.vcloud.example.com/ or
https://10.200.200.10/
When connecting from an external network: <BackupServiceAddress> is the URL of
the backup service as it appears on the public side of a firewall, load balancer, NAT/reverse
proxy, and other network components that you may have in front of your infrastructure.
For example: https://backup.example.com/
2. Type the user name and password of your vCloud Director system administrator account.
3. Click Log in.
1.5 Administering organizations
1.5.1 Monitoring organizations
To access the following information about organizations, click the Organizations tab.
Backup enabled
Yes/No
Protection status
Not protected
None of the organization's virtual machines are protected. A virtual machine is considered
protected if a backup plan (p. 32) is applied to it.
Never backed up
There are protected machines in the organization, but a backup has not run on any of them.
OK
The last backup was successful on all of the protected machines.
Error
The last backup of at least one protected machine in the organization failed.
To view status of a particular machine, switch to the organization administrator view (p. 29). The
statuses of a virtual machine are explained in "Monitoring protection statuses" (p. 48).
Backup storage
The backup storage assigned to the organization.
Quota
The storage quota for the organization.
If the quota is exceeded, the system administrators and the organization users see alerts in the
backup service interface. Restrictions on using the backup service are not applied unless a system
administrator does this manually.
To view the following information about an organization, select the organization in the list:
Number of vApps and Number of VMs
For those organizations where the backup service is enabled, the following information is also
displayed:
Login page
The address that the organization users use to log in to the service.