Agent For Esx/Esxi; Components For Centralized Management - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - UPDATE 3 User Manual

Disk backup
Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,
along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using the
sector-by-sector approach (raw mode.) A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a
packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover
disks or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.
File backup
File-level data protection is based on backing up files and directories residing on the machine where
the agent is installed or on a network share accessed using the smb or nfs protocol. Files can be
recovered to their original location or to another place. It is possible to recover all files and
directories that were backed up or select which of them to recover.
1.3.2.1 Deduplication
This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Storage Node.
1.3.3

Agent for ESX/ESXi

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi protects virtual machines residing on a VMware
ESX or ESXi virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host
without having to install agents on each virtual machine.
The agent is delivered as a virtual appliance.
1.3.4

Components for centralized management

This section lists the components included in the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 editions that provide
the centralized management capability. Besides these components, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Agents have to be installed on all machines that need data protection.
1.3.4.1 Management Server
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server is the central server that drives data protection
within the enterprise network. The management server provides the administrator with:
 a single entry point to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 infrastructure
 an easy way to protect data on numerous machines (p. 417) using backup policies (p. 410) and
grouping
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enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting functionality
 the ability to create centralized vaults (p. 412) for storing enterprise backup archives (p. 409)
 the ability to manage storage nodes (p. 419).
If there are multiple management servers on the network, they operate independently, manage
different machines and use different centralized vaults for storing archives.
The management server's databases
The management server uses three Microsoft SQL databases:
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