Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition Quick Start Guide
Table of contents 1 Main components ..................................................................................................................3 2 License server ........................................................................................................................3 3 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................3 3.1 Agents ...........................................................................
This document describes how to install and start using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. 1 Main components Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition contains the following main components. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi: Backs up virtual machines on a VMware ESX/ESXi host without installing agents inside each virtual machine.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V installs on Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition with Hyper-V as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows. It is highly recommended that Integration Services are installed in the guest systems. 3.
Below is an example of how you would distribute the components to protect virtual machines hosted on a VMware ESX server. The communication traffic between the AMS, ALS and the Agent residing on the same ESX server goes through its internal switch. The agent uses the external network to communicate with the console and to save backups in networked locations. The AMS uses the external connection to manage other hosts and to communicate with the console. AMS and ALS run on a regular virtual machine.
5 How many licenses do I need? To implement any of the above configurations, you need one license for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. The license is required to run either Agent for ESX/ESXi or Agent for Hyper-V. You may want to install agents on some of the virtual machines for specific purposes, such as filelevel backup or executing pre/post backup commands inside the guest system.
automatically register virtual machines created by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in the vCenter inventory. The vCenter integration functionality is delivered as a feature of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. No software installation is required on the vCenter Server. Here is an example of using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in a vSphere environment.
VMware API ESX1 VM1 VM2 VA1 VMware API ESX2 VM3 VM1 VM2 VA2 VM3 AMS Console Working without vCenter integration The AMS controls the virtual appliances. Each of the appliances manages backup and recovery of virtual machines hosted on its host using VMware API provided by the ESX hosts.
7 Preparing to start Make sure that you have: A virtual machine running Windows, with at least 700 MB of physical memory. You will install the management server on this machine. A license key for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition in a TXT or EML file. For multiple license keys, the text format is one line - one key. The setup program, which you can download from the Acronis Web site at: http://www.Acronis.
7. 8. 9. 10. Log on to the machine as an administrator. Open the shared network folder where the setup file is. Copy the folder's content to a local folder. Double click the setup file icon. Installing the license server Skip these steps if you are installing the trial product version. 1. 2. 3. 4. Click Install Acronis License Server. Click Next in the welcome window. Accept the terms of the license agreement. Click Import keys from file... and specify the file containing the list of license keys.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. In the list of components, select Management Console. Deselect the other components. Use the default values for Install to: and Install for:. Proceed with installation. On successful installation, close the wizard window. Close the blue splash screen. 8.1.2 Connecting to the management server Right after installation, the management console starts automatically.
3. 4. 5. 6. Details. In a vCenter cluster, a single Agent for ESX/ESXi backs up virtual machines hosted on all the cluster’s hosts. Select the vCenter hosts and clusters to deploy the agent to. If VMware vCenter integration is not enabled, add hosts by specifying their IP addresses or names. Use the Add ESX host control in case you need to specify other hosts. Use the default values for Datastore, Network interface and the user account. Click Provide a license.
8.2 Backing up virtual machines by using a backup plan In this step, you will back up multiple machines hosted on the same server and save the archives in the centralized vault. A separate archive will be created for each machine. Using a similar procedure, you can back up any machine's volumes. 8.2.1 Setting up the backup plan 1. Connect the console to the management server. 2. In the Navigation tree, expand Virtual machines. 3.
machine. The same information is available on your vCenter in the Virtual machines tab and also in each machine's Summary > Annotations. 8.2.3 What else you can do Once the backup task is completed, you can run it again at any time. Every task run will append a full backup to each machine's archive. You can schedule a backup plan. After N executions on schedule, every archive will contain N backups of the same machine.
Details. A virtual machine has to be stopped during the recovery to this machine. Otherwise the recovery task will fail. 11. Click OK to immediately start the recovery. Monitoring the task progress and results You are taken to the All physical machines view. The corresponding virtual appliance and its Information > Backup plans and tasks tab are selected. Here you can see the recovery task's execution state: Running. To view the recovery task's log, right-click the task and select View log.
Result. The policy will immediately start backing up the machines to the specified vault. The machines will be backed up one after another. 8.4.3 Monitoring the backup progress and results While the backup policy is being deployed, that is, the backup tasks are being created, the policy deployment state is Deploying. After all necessary tasks are created, the policy state becomes Deployed and its status should be OK. To view the backup tasks' progress and states, select Tasks in the Navigation tree.
