Virtual machines

You can centrally manage virtual machines using either of the following methods or both:

Adding a virtual machine as a physical machine

Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the virtual machine and register it on the management server. The machine will be treated as a physical one. You will be able to apply any backup policy to the machine, including policies that back up files.

This approach comes in handy when:

  • the machine is not hosted on a virtualization server
  • the virtualization product installed on the host server is not supported by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition
  • you want to use pre/post backup or pre/post data capture commands on the machine
  • you want to apply file backup policies to the machine.

Adding a virtual machine as a virtual machine

On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a machine is considered virtual if it can be backed up from the virtualization host without installing an agent on the machine. This is possible when using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. A virtual machine appears on the management server after registration of the virtualization server that hosts the machine, provided that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent for virtual machines is installed on that server.

Adding Hyper-V virtual machines

  1. Integration services have to be installed in the guest systems.
  2. Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V on the Hyper-V host. The agent is installed as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows.
  3. Register the Hyper-V host on the management server. If the machine is already registered, skip this step.
  4. The virtual machines hosted on the Hyper-V server appear in the All virtual machines group.

Adding ESX/ESXi virtual machines

  1. VMware Tools have to be installed in the guest systems.
  2. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi is delivered as a virtual appliance. Do either of the following:

    or

The virtual machines hosted on the ESX/ESXi server (except for the virtual appliance with the agent) appear in the All virtual machines group.

Virtual machines added to the management server as virtual machines are present under the Virtual machines in the Navigation tree. This section describes available operations with these machines.

In this section

Virtual machines on a management server

VMware vCenter integration

Deploying and updating Agent for ESX/ESXi

Support for vCenter clusters

Support for VM migration

Privileges for VM backup and recovery

Removing Agent for ESX/ESXi

Virtual machines