Quick Start
Table Of Contents
- 1 What is Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud?
- 2 Software requirements
- 3 Components
- 4 What you need to start
- 5 Step-by-step instructions
- 5.1 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 5.2 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 5.3 Enabling backup for an organization
- 5.4 Backing up virtual machines
- 5.5 Applying a backup plan
- 5.6 Overwriting a virtual machine with its backed-up version
- 5.7 Recovering a virtual machine
- 5.8 Recovering files from a virtual machine backup
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5.2.5 Installing Agent for vCloud
Agent for vCloud is delivered as an OVF template.
To install the agent, deploy the OVF template to your management cluster. Map the network in the
OVF template to a network that provides access to the management cluster virtual machines and to
the RabbitMQ Server host.
For general information about deploying an OVF template, refer to the following VMware knowledge
base article:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50/GUID-6C847F7
7-8CB2-4187-BD7F-E7D3D5BD897B.html.
5.2.6 Configuring Agent for vCloud
Logging in
Log in as a root user to the machine with Agent for vCloud. The default credentials are:
User name: root
Password: Default0 (case-sensitive)
Configuring the time zone
Set the time zone to that of the vCloud Director machine. This will enable Agent for vCloud to
convert time between user's and vCloud Director's time zones.
1. Find out the time zone of the vCloud Director machine. If you are not sure, log on to the machine
and run the date command. The output contains the time zone abbreviation. For example:
Mon Aug 26 23:00:00 EST 2013
EST stands for Eastern Standard Time. This time zone includes parts of the United States and
Canada, and some countries in South America. For more abbreviations see
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/.