Installation guide

1.3.7 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory (single-pass)

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory (single-pass) enables you to

create single-pass disk and application backups and to extract Microsoft Active Directory data from

them to a folder on a file system.

The agent uses Microsoft VSS to ensure the consistency of the backed-up data.

The agent is installed as an add-on to Agent for Windows (p. 6).

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Active Directory (single-pass) is also referred to

as Agent for Active Directory (single-pass) in this document.

1.3.8 Components for centralized management

This section lists the components included in the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 editions that

provide the centralized management capability. Besides these components, Acronis Backup &

Recovery 11.5 Agents have to be installed on all machines that need data protection.

1.3.8.1 Management Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server is the central server that drives data protection

within the enterprise network. The management server provides the administrator with:

 a single entry point to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 infrastructure

 an easy way to protect data on numerous machines using centralized backup plans and grouping

 integration with VMware vCenter to discover virtual machines for protection

 enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting functionality

 built-in license management

 the ability to create centralized vaults for storing enterprise backup archives

 the ability to manage storage nodes

 the centralized catalog of all data stored on the storage nodes.

If there are multiple management servers on the network, they operate independently, manage

different machines and use different centralized vaults for storing archives.

1.3.8.2 Storage Node

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node is a server designed to optimize the usage of various

resources (such as the corporate storage capacity, the network bandwidth, or the managed

machines' CPU load) which are required to protect the enterprise data. This goal is achieved by

organizing and managing the locations that serve as dedicated storages of the enterprise backup

archives (managed vaults).

The most important function of a storage node is deduplication of backups stored in its vaults. This

means that identical data will be backed up to this vault only once. This minimizes the network usage

during backup and storage space taken by the archives.

The storage nodes enable creating highly scalable and flexible, in terms of the hardware support,

storage infrastructure. Up to 50 storage nodes can be set up, each being able to manage up to 20

vaults.