User`s guide

To be able to deduplicate backups, an agent needs a separately sold license for deduplication. If

you have imported such licenses into the license server, you can select the Enable

deduplication... check box to let the agents acquire these licenses.

When installing the product for online backup only, select Online backup only (license key is not

required). This option presumes that you have or will obtain a subscription to the Acronis Backup

& Recovery 10 Online service by the time of the first backup.

6. Click Deploy ESX agent.

Monitoring the deployment progress and result

Creating or updating virtual appliances may take some time. Watch the progress of the operations at

the bottom of the virtual machines' views underneath the Information bar. After a virtual appliance

is created and registered, a corresponding group of virtual machines appears on the management

server.

If the deployment completed but the group of virtual machines is missing

Access the virtual appliance console using the vSphere/VMware Infrastructure client and check the

agent configuration. Configure the agent manually, if required, as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi

virtual appliance." Add the virtual appliance to the management server manually as described in

"Adding a machine to the management server (p. 307)."

7.1.4.4 Support for vCenter clusters

In a vCenter cluster, a single Agent for ESX/ESXi backs up virtual machines hosted on all the cluster’s

hosts.

Deploying Agent for ESX/ESXi to a cluster

When configuring the agent deployment from a management server, you can select a cluster as a

regular ESX host. The agent virtual appliance (VA) is deployed to a storage shared by all the cluster’s

hosts. Normally, this is an NFS share or a SAN-LUN attached to each of the hosts.

Let’s assume that the cluster contains three servers.

 Server 1 uses storages A, B, C, D

 Server 2 uses storages C, D, E

 Server 3 uses storages B, C, D

The VA can be deployed to either C or D. If there is no storage shared by all the servers, you can

import the VA manually into any of the hosts. This will work, but backup performance will be far from

optimal.

After deployment, the agent virtual appliance can appear on any of the hosts included in the cluster,

depending on how the load balancing is configured.

Moving the agent VA around the cluster

The agent’s work is not affected when the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) migrates the virtual

appliance to another host.