Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide Bedienungsanleitung

User Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3.2.2 Single file backup scheme (Always Incremental mode) Usually, backups are kept only for

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Upon adding new licenses you will get the following message indicating the number of licenses

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15.4.4 Available Licenses There are several license types that can be used by Acronis vmProt

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Configuring ESX(i) Hosts page, Hosts list. Adding an ESX(i) host/vCenter will not bind the l

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) hosts page, Add Host/vCenter dialog. 15.5.3 Adding an ESX(i) host which i

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) Hosts page, Enter credentials dialog. 15.5.5 Removing ESX(i) host Removing

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) Hosts page, Remove Host dialog. 15.6 Managing settings 15.6.1 Cloud Back

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 This option defines whether the Acronis agent will connect to the Internet through a proxy se

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15.6.3 Agent Password To change your User password go to the Configure tab, click Agent Se

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Export Configuration Click the Export button to save the Acronis vmProtect tasks and other in

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Configuring settings, Import configuration.

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4 Installation of Acronis vmProtect 9 4.1 Requirements 4.1.1 Supported operating systems Ac

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16 Best Practices In this section we will give a few examples of some operations with Acronis

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In order to do that, you have to run the Restore backup task wizard which will guide you thro

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 17 Support 17.1 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance wit

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 18 Glossary A Agent (Acronis vmProtect 9 Agent) An application that performs backup and recov

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 B Backup The result of a single backup operation (p. 114) as a single recovery point (p. 120)

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Backup task (Task) A set of rules that specify how the given virtual machine or a set of vi

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 C CBT (Changed Block Tracking) A feature of VMware ESX(i) which allows to identify which bloc

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Deduplication in Acronis vmProtect 9 is managing data within only one backup archive. For exa

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Dynamic disk A hard disk managed by Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that is available in Windows

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  To reduce the access time (a striped volume).  To achieve fault tolerance by introducing

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  VMware vSphere Essentials (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).  VMwar

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 I Incremental backup A backup (p. 113) that stores changes to the data against the latest b

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Registered machine A virtual machine managed by Acronis vmProtect 9 Agent. All virtual machin

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 U Universal Restore (Acronis Universal Restore) The Acronis proprietary technology that helps

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 vCenter VMware vCenter Server, formerly VMware VirtualCenter, centrally manages VMware vSpher

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4.1.3 How to install VMware Tools Acronis vmProtect 9 requires the installation of VMware Too

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Network Assign network + + + Resource Assign VM to resource pool + + + Virtual machine -&g

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The roles privileges can be configured via the vSphere Client connected to a ESX(i) host/vCent

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4.2 Installation options The very first thing you have to do is to install Acronis vmProtec

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 software for running all necessary Acronis services will be installed on a separate small virt

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 default credentials the login is performed automatically. If you've changed the Agent Pas

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Acronis vmProtect 9 Windows Agent can be installed on any machine that runs Windows and meets

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013. All rights reserved. “Ac

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 http://kb.acronis.com. If you still cannot find the answer how to solve this problem, please c

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Details. The label length is limited to 16 characters due to file system restrictions. To sele

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 5 Getting started Once you installed the Acronis vmProtect 9 or deployed your Acronis vmProte

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Login page After logging in the Acronis vmProtect 9 you will see a welcome screen with the Da

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Tasks The Tasks section presents summary information about the current tasks that are running

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1) Actions tab The first Actions tab contains the basic functions of Acronis vmProtect 9 and

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 d. Mounted VM(s) view This is the link to Mounted VM(s) view. The Mounted virtual machines man

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 c. View -> Mounted VM(s) When the Mounted VM(s) view is selected, the Mounted VM(s) tab app

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6 vCenter Integration The main tool for managing the vSphere virtual infrastructure is the VM

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 options results in opening the Acronis pop-up and activating the backup/restore wizard which w

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis vmProtect 9 ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 vCenter Integration, New Restore Task, step 1 Note that it's not possible to operate wi

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7 Backup Click Create Backup Task in the dashboard’s Quick start or Backup in the Actions tab

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You can back up dynamic groups of the machines by selecting the upper level unit (e.g. ESX(i)

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1. Every: 1 week(s) on: <Workdays>. Selecting the Workdays check box automatically se

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Choose one of the backup location types from the browse tree on the left side. If the chosen l

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Create Backup wizard, Step 3 “Where to back up”, Simple cleanup scheme, delete the outdated b

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Create Backup wizard, Step 3 “Where to back up”, GFS cleanup scheme Note that retention rules

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The following settings allow you to configure the backup copying options. Select the second lo

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. Install a small (up to 30Mb) “Acronis Backup Agent” inside the VM. For that: run Acronis v

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 When you click on the Save button, all the parameters of your set up backup task will be saved

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7.5.6 Notifications ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files and folders

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Select one of the following compression levels:  None. The data will be copied “as is”, with

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 individual backup task at the step 4 of the New backup task wizard. Click More options and go

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Use encryption – you can opt for the encrypted connection to the mail server and choose SSL or

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 More information http://kb.acronis.com/content/11851 About the test message When configuring S

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7.6 Managing created backup task When editing an existing backup task you will see all the se

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8 Replication 8.1 New Replication Task The replication feature provides you with the ability

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8.1.2 When to Replicate In the second step of the New Replication Task wizard, you should def

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 New Replication Task, step 3 “Select location and datastore for replica” Define the Replica n

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 CBT replication keeps track of all the changed blocks inside the virtual machine. This signifi

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 13.3 Editing a task ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Replicated VM Manager On the Replica Info tab you can see the summary information on the sele

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Failover 8.2.3 Failback VM from Replica The failback operation (restoring a VM from replica

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Failback from Replica, step 1 “Select Replica(s) to failback from” In the second step, Where

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In the third step, How to failback, select the restore task options. In the VM power managemen

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Selecting the Power on the VM after permanent failover check box starts the machine. Selecting

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 9 Recovery 9.1 Restoring a Backup of Virtual Machines Select the Recovery -> Entire VM in

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If the selected location contains any password-protected archives or archives of physical mach

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 First of all, with the Select location drop-down list you should define the desired destinatio

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 New Restore Task wizard, Step 2 “Where to restore”, overwrite the existing VM confirmation di

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Here you can specify whether to validate the archives before the recovery (for further informa

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16.2 Restoring a backup of a virtual machine to a new location ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 9.1.4.1 Notifications 1) E-mail notifications This option allows setting up the e-mail noti

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 management application and the sending machine belong. The typical community is “public”; Clic

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After you finished with all the settings, click OK to close the pop-up and apply them for the

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 File Recovery wizard, Step 1 “Select VM(s) to extract files from” If the selected location co

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You can use one or more wildcard characters “*” and “?” as a file mask, for example: “C:\Finan

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 VM backups which you see in the middle section. Select the VM you need to extract Exchange Dat

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Extract Exchange Servet Items, Selecting databases and a recovery point Finally, click Browse

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Extract Exchange Servet Items, Selecting a recovery point for browsing On the final step clic

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 9.3.3 Extracting Mailboxes content When choosing to extract Mailboxes Content you can browse

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Extract Exchange Servet Items, Selecting destination for saving items The selected Mailboxes

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1 Introducing Acronis vmProtect 9 Acronis believes that virtualization and transition to the

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 On the first step of the wizard you have to select a location and a VM with MS SQL Server back

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 10 Running VM from Backup Click Run VM from Backup in the Actions tab of the main menu to moun

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If the selected location contains any password-protected archives or archives of physical mach

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 First of all, with the Select Location drop-down list you should define the ESX(i) host where

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Run VM from Backup wizard, Step 3 “Additional Settings” Select the Power on the mounted VM op

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 11 P2V Migration 11.1 How to Perform a P2V Migration To reduce hardware requirements, there i

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 12 Bare Metal Recovery of ESXi Hosts The Acronis vmProtect 9 Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) of the

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 New ESXi Backup Task, Select an ESXi Host to back up In the second step (When to Backup), you

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In the third step (Where to back up), select the location for storing your ESXi configuration

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 New ESXi Backup Task, How to back up To complete the New ESXi Backup Task wizard, you should

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2 Acronis vmProtect 9 Overview Acronis vmProtect 9 is a comprehensive backup and recovery solu

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The second step is to Select vmProtect 9 Backup Locations. Select the check box for the backup

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 but does not match the original configuration, its name appears in yellow. If the detected dat

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 13 Managing Tasks Click Tasks in the View tab of the main menu to open the Tasks page (View -&

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 13.2 Cancelling a task You can cancel the selected active task by clicking the Cancel button.

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Backing up: N/A Speed: 8.053 Mb/s Schedule: N/A The Options section on the right shows the set

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing tasks, View task details, Summary tab, Source and Target tab If the backup task was

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing tasks, Viewing task details, Backup and Copy task info

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 14 Managing Recovery Points Click the Recovery Points button in the View tab of the main menu

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing Recovery Points, no locations available 14.1 Adding a backup location Optionally

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 An alternative to browsing the location in the tree is entering the path in the corresponding

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3 How Acronis vmProtect 9 Works 3.1 Virtual machines backup and restore As with a physical ma

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Recovery Points: the column shows the date and time values corresponding to creation of eac

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 14.5.2 Exchange Recovery Click the Exchange Recovery button in the ribbon menu to extract t

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15 Other Operations 15.1 Validating backups Validating backups is an operation that checks th

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Recovery Point – To ensure that you can revert back to some specific recovery point, you can p

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15.2 Managing mounted VMs Click Mounted VMs in the View tab of the Acronis vmProtect 9 main r

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The Source tab presents the tree of mounted ESX(i) hosts+vApps/VMs. Here is an example of the

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Logs list. The logs list contains the Date/Time, Task name and Message columns. You can sort

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Clear log dialog. 15.3.3 Log cleanup rules Click the Log Cleanup Rules button in the main t

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 exceeded, the program deletes the oldest log entries. The default 95% setting will keep most o

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing Licenses page, licenses list. 15.4.1 Adding license You can add licenses by cop