Virtual Machines On A Management Server - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

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 (p. 306) 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:
 Deploy the agent (p. 322) to the ESX/ESXi server
or

Install and configure the agent manually as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi virtual
appliance"
 Add (p. 306) the virtual appliance to the management server as an ordinary physical machine
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.
7.1.4.1

Virtual machines on a management server

Availability of virtual machines
Virtual machines are displayed as available when both the agent is available for the management
server and the machines are available for the agent. The list of virtual machines is refreshed
dynamically every time the management server synchronizes with the agents.
When the virtualization server or the virtual appliance becomes unavailable or is withdrawn, the
virtual machines are grayed out.
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