Operation Manual

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.

Acronis vmProtect 9 Windows Agent can be installed on any machine that runs Windows and meets

the system requirements. Here is a brief description of the steps you need to go through in order to

complete your Windows Agent installation.

1. First, read the Acronis vmProtect 9 license agreement, select the acceptance check box and then

click Next.

2. Specify credentials for the Acronis services. The Acronis Managed Machine Service component

(responsible for the core functionality of Acronis vmProtect 9) runs as a service. Specify the

account under which the component's service will run after the installation (this account will be

automatically granted with “Log on as service” permissions on the machine). Here you should

provide the credentials of any Windows user which has “Log on locally” permissions on the

machine with the Agent installed. Typically, this can be any user account from “Administrators”,

“Power Users” or “Users” group. Set the HTTPs port, e.g. the default 9877 port. For access to

Acronis web console page after Acronis vmProtect 9 Agent is installed, open your web browser

and enter “https://myserver:port” in the browser address bar.

Note that in order to successfully connect to your installed Agent through the browser (web

console), the name of your local PC where Acronis vmProtect 9 is installed should not contain

an underscore (_) symbol. You should provide the credentials of any user with Administrator

privileges on the machine.