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same machine. You will be able to use different backup strategies for the virtual disk and the physical

storage. The virtual machine configuration will be also backed up.

Limitations

A Hyper-V virtual machine that uses at least one pass-through disk (a physical disk, either local or

SAN-LUN, attached to the virtual machine) cannot be backed up from the host. To back up such

machine or its disks, install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine.

A SAN-LUN disk attached to an ESX/ESXi virtual machine in the "Physical compatibility" mode, cannot

be backed up from the host while the virtual machine is online (running). To back up such disk, either

stop the machine or install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine.

Virtual machine backup vs. physical machine backup

Backing up an entire virtual machine or its volumes yields a standard disk backup (p. 393). With

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux,

you can mount its volumes, recover individual files from this backup, and recover disks and volumes

from the backup to a physical machine.

Similarly, you can recover disks or volumes from a physical machine backup created with the Agent

for Windows or the Agent for Linux, to a new or existing virtual machine using either of the agents for

virtual machines. Hence, physical to virtual and virtual to physical machine migration becomes

available.

Guest operating systems

The following guest operating systems are supported.

Microsoft Windows platform:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard (x86, x64) SP2 or later

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (x86, x64) SP2 or later

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard (x86, x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise (x86, x64)

• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (x86, x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard (x86, x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x86, x64)

Linux platform.

Guest HDD

The following virtual disk configurations are supported.

Partitioning style: MBR

Volume types: basic and dynamic volumes.

Dynamic volumes (LDM in Windows and LVM in Linux) are supported to the same extent as on

physical machines. The LDM/LVM structure needs to be created prior to the recovery if you want to