Virtual Machines On A Management Server - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition User Manual

machine, provided that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent for virtual machines is installed on that
server.
Adding Hyper-V virtual machines
1. Integration services (p. 50) 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. 295) 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 (p. 50) 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. 312) to the ESX/ESXi server
or

Install and configure the agent manually as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi virtual
appliance"

Add (p. 295) 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When the virtualization server or the virtual appliance becomes unavailable or is withdrawn, the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.
When virtual machines become unavailable for the agent (this happens when machines are removed
from the virtualization server inventory, deleted from the disk, or the server's storage is down or
disconnected), the machines disappear from the All virtual machines groups and other groups they
are included in. Tasks that back up these virtual machines will fail with an appropriate log record; as a
result, the generative policy will have the Error status.
The online or offline state of a virtual machine does not affect its backup since virtual machines can
be backed up in both states.
Policies for virtual machines
Any policy that backs up disks and volumes can be applied to virtual machines as well as to physical
machines. Policies that perform file-level backup cannot be applied to virtual machines. For more
information about backup and recovery of virtual machines, supported guest operating systems and
disk configurations, see "Backing up virtual machines (p. 48)".
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