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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3 Components
Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud consists of multiple components that need to be installed on
separate machines.
Agents for VMware run as virtual appliances in the vCloud resource group.
The default settings of the agent machine: 1 GB of memory, 6 GB of disk space, and two CPU.
Management Server needs to be installed in the management cluster, on a virtual machine
running Windows.
Minimum requirements for the machine: 3 GB of memory, 30 GB of disk space, and two CPU.
Agent for vCloud needs to be imported from an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template to
the management cluster. The agent is a Linux virtual machine, which also serves as the web
server.
The default settings of the agent machine: 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of disk space, and one CPU.
The following diagram illustrates a typical installation and interaction of the components.