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The components installed on VMware ESX(i) server
Agent for ESX/ESXi Virtual
Appliance
512 MB
(the Virtual
Appliance
memory setting)
5 GB 5 GB CPU reservation:
minimum 300
MHz
recommended
In a vCenter
cluster, a shared
storage is
required
Network interface card or virtual network adapter is a common requirement for all the components.
Bootable media
Media type Memory ISO image size Additional
Based on Windows PE 512 MB 300 MB
Linux-based 256 MB 130 MB
1.4 Licensing policy
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 licensing is based on the number of machines managed and protected
by the product. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents require a license to perform operations on
each managed machine. The method of license check is different for stand-alone product editions
and editions that enable centralized management.
Editions with centralized management
These are the following editions:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server (ABR10 AS)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition (ABR10 AS VE)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition (ABR10 AS SBS)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation (ABR10 AW)
These editions include Acronis License Server that has to be installed prior to agent installation.
License keys can be imported to the Acronis License Server from .txt or .eml files during the server
installation or later on. For ABR10 AS, one license key enables installation of the agent on a physical
host and four virtual machines. For ABR10 AS VE, one license key enables installation of the agent on
a physical host and on an unlimited number of hosted virtual machines.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent connects to Acronis License Server every time the agent service
is started and then every 1–5 days, as specified by the agent configuration parameters. If the agent is
unable to connect to the license server or does not find the appropriate license key for 1-60 days (as
specified by the configuration parameters), it stops working until there has been a successful license
check.
By default, the agent tries to connect to the license server every day and keeps working without a
license server or license for 30 days.