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Table of contents

1 Introducing Acronis Backup for VMware .................................................................................7

2 Acronis Backup for VMware Overview ....................................................................................8

2.1 Acronis Backup for VMware Features ....................................................................................... 8

3 How Acronis Backup for VMware Works ................................................................................9

3.1 Virtual machines backup and restore ........................................................................................ 9

3.2 Backup archive structure ........................................................................................................... 9

3.2.1 Multiple files backup scheme (Legacy mode) ............................................................................................... 9

3.2.2 Single file backup scheme (Always Incremental mode) ............................................................................. 10

4 Installation of Acronis Backup for VMware ........................................................................... 11

4.1 Requirements ..........................................................................................................................11

4.1.1 Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 11

4.1.2 System requirements .................................................................................................................................... 11

4.1.3 How to install VMware Tools ....................................................................................................................... 13

4.1.4 Privileges for VM backup and recovery ....................................................................................................... 13

4.2 Installation options ..................................................................................................................20

4.2.1 Installing Acronis Backup for VMware as Virtual Appliance on an ESX(i) host ......................................... 21

4.2.2 Installing Acronis Backup for VMware as Windows Agent ........................................................................ 22

4.2.3 Extracting installation files ............................................................................................................................ 24

4.2.4 Configuring ESX(i) host connection settings ................................................................................................ 25

4.2.5 Using a locally attached storage................................................................................................................... 25

4.3 Uninstalling Acronis Backup for VMware ................................................................................25

5 Getting started .................................................................................................................... 26

5.1 Dashboard Management .........................................................................................................27

5.2 Using Web Console ..................................................................................................................28

5.2.1 Ribbon tabs .................................................................................................................................................... 28

5.2.2 Logout link...................................................................................................................................................... 30

6 vCenter Integration .............................................................................................................. 31

7 Centralized Dashboard ......................................................................................................... 34

8 Backup ................................................................................................................................ 36

8.1 Select VM(s) to back up ...........................................................................................................36

8.2 When to back up ......................................................................................................................37

8.3 Where to back up ....................................................................................................................38

8.4 How to back up ........................................................................................................................42

8.4.1 Application-Aware Backup Settings ............................................................................................................. 42

8.4.2 Backup validation .......................................................................................................................................... 43

8.4.3 Other settings ................................................................................................................................................ 43

8.4.4 Completing the Create backup task wizard................................................................................................. 44

8.5 Options ....................................................................................................................................44

8.5.1 Archive Protection ......................................................................................................................................... 44

8.5.2 Source Files Exclusion ................................................................................................................................... 45

8.5.3 Compression Level ........................................................................................................................................ 46