Support For Vcenter Clusters - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

Click Provide license.
When installing the trial product version, select Use the following trial license key and enter the
trial license key. Deduplication is always enabled in the trial version.
When installing the purchased product, select Use a license from the following Acronis License
Server and specify the license server that has the appropriate number of licenses for Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. You need one license for every host you
selected.
To be able to deduplicate backups, an agent needs a separately sold license for deduplication. If
you have imported such licenses into the license server, you can select the Enable
deduplication... check box to let the agents acquire these licenses.
6. Click Deploy ESX agent.
Monitoring the deployment progress and result
Creating or updating virtual appliances may take some time. Watch the progress of the operations at
the bottom of the virtual machines' views underneath the Information bar. After a virtual appliance
is created and registered, a corresponding group of virtual machines appears on the management
server.
If the deployment completed but the group of virtual machines is missing
Access the virtual appliance console using the vSphere/VMware Infrastructure client and check the
agent configuration. Configure the agent manually, if required, as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi
virtual appliance." Add the virtual appliance to the management server manually as described in
"Adding a machine to the management server (p. 278)."
7.1.4.4

Support for vCenter clusters

In a vCenter cluster, a single Agent for ESX/ESXi backs up virtual machines hosted on all the cluster's
hosts.
Deploying Agent for ESX/ESXi to a cluster
When configuring the agent deployment from a management server, you can select a cluster as a
regular ESX host. The agent virtual appliance (VA) is deployed to a storage shared by all the cluster's
hosts. Normally, this is an NFS share or a SAN-LUN attached to each of the hosts.
Let's assume that the cluster contains three servers.
 Server 1 uses storages A, B, C, D
 Server 2 uses storages C, D, E
 Server 3 uses storages B, C, D
The VA can be deployed to either C or D. If there is no storage shared by all the servers, you can
import the VA manually into any of the hosts. This will work, but backup performance will be far from
optimal.
After deployment, the agent virtual appliance can appear on any of the hosts included in the cluster,
depending on how the load balancing is configured.
Moving the agent VA around the cluster
The agent's work is not affected when the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) migrates the virtual
appliance to another host.
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