Installation Instructions

The diagram below illustrates a LAN-based and a LAN-free backup. LAN-free access to virtual

machines is available if you have a fibre channel (FC) or iSCSI Storage Area Network. To completely

eliminate transferring the backed-up data via LAN, store the backups on a local disk of the agent's

machine or on a SAN attached storage.

Agent for VMware (Windows) can be installed on any machine that runs Windows and meets the

system requirements (p. 16). Follow the instructions described in the "Interactive installation of

Acronis Backup Advanced" (p. 20) section.

During installation, specify the vCenter Server or ESX(i) Server whose virtual machines the agent will

back up.

You will be able to set or change this setting at a later time. To access this setting after the agent has

been installed, connect the console to the machine with the agent and select from the top menu

Options > Machine options > Agent for VMware (Windows).

Providing licenses

Agent for VMware requires either of the following licenses to work:

 Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware

 Acronis Backup Advanced Universal License

The installation of the agent does not require a license. However, you must specify a license server.

Once the agent starts backing up a virtual machine, the agent checks whether the virtual machine's

host has a license. If it does not have one, the agent takes a free license from the specified license

server and assigns it to the host. If the host is included in a cluster, licenses will be assigned to all of