Installation Instructions

1.4.2 Licensing for virtual machines

The licenses for virtual environments enable backing up a physical host and an unlimited number of

hosted virtual machines.

You can install the product into the guest systems, back them up from the host, or combine both

methods. Any Acronis Backup agent, including Agent for Exchange, Agent for SQL, and Agent for

Active Directory, can be installed without additional licenses.

For a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V cluster, you need as many licenses as there are nodes in

the cluster.

The following table enables you to define which license is required for your virtualization platform.

License name

Virtualization platform

Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware

Any supported platform developed by VMware (ESX,

ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE)*

Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V

Any supported platform developed by Microsoft

(Hyper-V, Windows Virtual PC)*

Acronis Backup Advanced for RHEV

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM)

Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer

Acronis Backup Advanced for Oracle VM

Oracle VM Server

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Acronis Backup Advanced Universal License

All of the above

Parallels Workstation

Parallels Server Bare Metal

*For a complete list of supported virtualization platforms, refer to "Supported virtualization platforms" in the

"Backing up virtual machines" document.

1.5 Supported operating systems

Components for a managed machine

Important: Refer to "Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012" in the product Help or the

User Guide for details and limitations of this support.

Acronis Backup Agent for Windows

Acronis Backup Advanced for Windows Server