Updating Esx/Esxi Virtual Appliance - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - INSTALLATION UPDATE 3 Installation Manual

2.7.2

Updating ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance

Update from the management server
This update method applies only to those virtual appliances that are registered on the management
server. This method is preferable to the manual procedure described later in this section, because all
configuration settings (backup plans, applied policies and group membership) related to the virtual
machines managed by the agent, will be preserved in this case.
To update the virtual appliances from the management server:
1. Update the management console and the management server.
2. Connect the console to the management server.
3. In the Navigation tree, right click the group that has the same name as the vCenter Server. If
VMware vCenter integration is not enabled, right click Virtual machines.
4. Click Deploy ESX agents.
5. Select the vCenter's hosts and clusters where to update Agent for ESX/ESXi. If VMware vCenter
integration is not enabled, add hosts by specifying their IP addresses or names. For every host or
cluster where the agent is already installed, the right panel of the ESX Agent Deployment
window displays: Update ESX agent on this host.
6. Click Deploy ESX Agents.
The virtual appliances will be updated; the agents' configuration settings will be preserved.
Manual update
Manual update of the virtual appliance involves deleting the old appliance and installing a new one.
After manually updating the virtual appliance, you will have to recreate local backup plans that
existed on the appliance and re-apply the backup policies that were applied to virtual machines
managed by the appliance (that is, the machines hosted on the ESX/ESXi server the VA is managing).
To update the virtual appliance (VA) manually
1. Remove the VA from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. Skip this step if the
appliance is not registered on the management server.
To remove the VA, connect to the management server, right-click the VA in the All physical
machines list, and then click Delete machine from AMS. The policies applied to the virtual
machines the appliance was managing are revoked.
2. Revoke the license used by the VA, as described in "Using Acronis License Server (p. 14)", under
"Revoking licenses".
3. Delete (p. 48) the virtual appliance from the ESX/ESXi server.
4. Install and configure the new VA, as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance (p. 32)".
5. [Optional] Re-create local backup plans that previously existed on the VA if you want to continue
using them.
6. [Optional] Re-apply backup policies that were previously applied directly to the virtual machines
managed by the virtual appliance. You also have to re-apply policies to the dynamic group of
these machines (the group that has the same name as the VA registration address), because this
group is automatically deleted and recreated during the VA update.
Policies applied to the All virtual machines group will be re-deployed to the virtual machines
automatically.
7. [Optional] Re-add the machines managed by the VA to the custom static groups.
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