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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Specify how many virtual machines Agent for VMware may back up simultaneously. The default
value is 5. The maximum value is 10.
The value you specify is effective for a backup plan. If an agent runs more than one backup plan
simultaneously, the number of machines being backed up may exceed the setting, but it still
cannot exceed 10. A backup plan that requires to back up the 11th machine will not start until
one of the backup operations is finished.
Tip. Simultaneous backup of multiple virtual machines increases the amount of CPU resources
used by Agents for VMware. By default, Agent for VMware uses two virtual processors. If you
observe that CPU usage during backup approaches 100%, increase the number of virtual
processors in the virtual appliance settings. This may significantly increase the simultaneous
backup performance.
Network connection speed
Define the amount of network connection bandwidth allocated for transferring the backup data.
By default the speed is set to maximum, so that the software uses all the network bandwidth
available when transferring the backup data. Use this option to reserve a part of the network
bandwidth for other network activities.
Error handling
Specify how to handle errors that might occur during backup or recovery.
When a recoverable error occurs, the program re-attempts to perform the unsuccessful
operation. You can set the time interval and the number of attempts. The attempts will stop as
soon as the operation succeeds OR the specified number of attempts are performed, depending
on which comes first.
For example, if Number of attempts is set to 30, Interval between attempts is set to 30 seconds,
and the backup destination on the network becomes unavailable or not reachable, the program
will attempt to reach the destination every 30 seconds, but no more than 30 times.
Usage report for Acronis
These settings are used when you send reports about using the backup service to Acronis.
Company name
Specify the name of your company. Acronis will use it to identify your usage reports.
Contact e-mail
Specify your e-mail address. Acronis will use this address to contact you, if needed.
If you want to automate sending the reports, select the Automatically send usage reports to Acronis
on the first day of each month check box.
For detailed information about usage reports, refer to "Generating usage reports" (p. 33).
Public URL
This setting is used to display an easily readable backup service address that you can provide to the
organization users. The address is displayed in the organization details under Login page.
By default, Agent for vCloud uses its IP address to construct the login page addresses. For example, if
the IP address is 10.200.200.10, after backup is enabled for an organization named MyOrganization,
the address under Login page in the organization details will be displayed as:
https://10.200.200.10/org/MyOrganization
In Public URL, specify how the URL of the backup service 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