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 Logs list. The logs list contains the Date/Time, Task name and Message columns. You can sort

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Clear log dialog. 16.3.3 Log cleanup rules Click the Log Cleanup Rules button in the main

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 When the Log cleanup rules option is enabled, then after every 100 log entries, the program w

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing Licenses page, licenses list. 16.4.1 Adding license You can add licenses by co

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

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16.4.4 Available Licenses There are several license types that can be used by Acronis Back

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

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) hosts page, Add Host/vCenter dialog. 16.5.3 Adding an ESX(i) host which i

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) Hosts page, Enter credentials dialog. 16.5.5 Removing ESX(i) host Removing

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing ESX(i) Hosts page, Remove Host dialog. 16.6 Managing settings 16.6.1 Cloud Back

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4 Installation of Acronis Backup for VMware 4.1 Requirements 4.1.1 Supported operating syst

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

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16.6.3 Agent Password To change your User password go to the Configure tab, click Agent Set

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Export Configuration Click the Export button to save the Acronis Backup for VMware tasks and

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

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 17 Best Practices In this section we will give a few examples of some operations with Acronis

115 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

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 18 Support 18.1 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance wit

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 19 Glossary A Agent (Acronis Backup for VMware Agent) An application that performs backup and

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 B Backup The result of a single backup operation (p. 118) as a single recovery point (p. 124)

119 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

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  VMware vSphere Enterprise.  VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus.  VMware vSphere Essentials

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

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Deduplication in Acronis Backup for VMware is managing data within only one backup archive. F

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

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

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 I Incremental backup A backup (p. 117) that stores changes to the data against the latest b

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Registered machine A virtual machine managed by Acronis Backup for VMware Agent. All virtual

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

127 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 Backup for VMware requires the installation of VM

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Low level file operations + + + + + + + + + Remove datastore + + Remove files +

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Create resource pool Modify resource pool Move resource pool

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Add or remove device + + + + + + + + + Advanced + + + + + + Change CPU count

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Configure CD media Configure floppy media Console interaction

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Read customization specifications Virtual machine -> State Create snapshot + +

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

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014. All rights reserved. “Ac

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

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4.2.1 Installing Acronis Backup for VMware as Virtual Appliance on an ESX(i) host Acronis Bac

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 default Internet browser) to connect to your newly deployed Acronis Backup for VMware Virtual

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The diagram below illustrates a LAN-based and a LAN-free backup. LAN-free access to virtual ma

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. Select the way you want your components to be installed, i.e. specify the location where t

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Specify the location you want to extract your files to, and then click Extract. The Disk usage

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 5 Getting started Once you installed the Acronis Backup for VMware or deployed your Acronis B

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After logging in the Acronis Backup for VMware you will see a welcome screen with the Dashbord

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Virtual Machines The Virtual Machines section shows the hosts and clusters (vCenter) names and

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 d. Run VM from backup task This is the Run VM from backup button which activates the run VM fr

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Backup for VMware ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 b. Licenses This is the link to the Licenses management page. Managing licenses is described i

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

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Acronis Backup for VMware Backup and Acronis Backup for VMware Restore options. Choosing one o

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

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7 Centralized Dashboard Acronis Backup for VMware Centralized Dashboard presents the effectiv

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36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8 Backup Click Create Backup Task in the dashboard’s Quick start or Backup in the Actions tab

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 machines running within this group will be automatically included in the backup list. Moreover

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

39 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

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8.5.4 Error Handling...

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

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

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 From the When to copy drop down list select if you would like to copy the backup to the second

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1. Disable UAC for the specified user. The UAC can be enabled/disabled via a domain group pol

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8.4.4 Completing the Create backup task wizard To complete the New backup task wizard, you sh

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8.5.2 Source Files Exclusion With the source files exclusion rules you can define which data

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8.5.3 Compression Level The Compression level option defines the level of compression applied

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Disaster Recovery Plan is generated by Acronis Agent and sent after the first backup. A new Di

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Port – set the port of the SMTP server (the default port value is set to 25). User name – ente

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0:I0064000B Supported operations Acronis Backup for VMware support

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 14 Managing Tasks ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After you finish with all the settings, click Ok to close the pop-up and save or discard the c

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 9 Replication 9.1 New Replication Task The replication feature provides you with the ability

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 9.1.2 When to Replicate In the second step of the New Replication Task wizard, you should def

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

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4) Provisioning mode. Specify the provisioning mode that will be used on the target VM replica

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

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Failover 9.2.3 Failback VM from Replica The failback operation (restoring a VM from replica

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In the second step, Where to failback VM(s) from replica, select the VM(s) location. You can s

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 When you click on the Save button, all your task parameters will be saved. In the Tasks view,

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 10 Recovery 10.1 Restoring a Backup of Virtual Machines Select the Recovery -> Entire VM i

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16.6.4 Export/Import Configuration ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You can select any of the virtual machines from the left side list and move them to the Select

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 When the Original Location is selected for restoring VM(s), you can implement the incremental

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If there are virtual machines on the selected ESX(i) host or datastore with the same names, yo

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 New Restore Task wizard, Step 3 “How to restore” To complete the wizard and create the restor

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 10.1.4.1 Notifications 1) E-mail notifications This option allows setting up the e-mail notif

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Do not send SNMP notifications – to disable sending the events log of the restore operation

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 10.1.4.5 Exchange Restore Settings Prior to running Microsoft Exchange Server Backup Extra

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

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Also, you can sort the search results by any of the columns: name, date and time modified, siz

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 On the first step you have to select a location and a VM with Exchange Server backups. On the

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1 Introducing Acronis Backup for VMware Acronis believes that virtualization and transition

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Finally, click Browse and select the destination folder where to save the database archive. Cl

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

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 10.3.3 Extracting Mailboxes content When choosing to extract Mailboxes Content you can browse

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

74 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

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 11 Running VM from Backup Click Run VM from Backup in the Actions tab of the main menu to moun

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 from the left side of the butterfly control to the right one by double-clicking it or via the

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Once the ESX(i) host is defined, the list of available resource pools is build up automaticall

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Select the Power on the mounted VM option to automatically run your machine upon completion of

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 12 P2V Migration 12.1 How to Perform a P2V Migration To reduce hardware requirements, there i

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2 Acronis Backup for VMware Overview Acronis Backup for VMware (former vmProtect 9) is a compr

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 13 Bare Metal Recovery of ESXi Hosts The Acronis Backup for VMware Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) o

81 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

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Select Automatically delete old backups check box to set up the clean up rules. The details fo

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 To complete the New ESXi Backup Task wizard, you should name the task. Note that [ ] { } ; , .

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 ESXi Host Configuration Recovery Note, if you do not select the VMs backup locations here, th

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  By default, automatic mapping is used. The current hardware is scanned for NICs in order to

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 14 Managing Tasks Click Tasks in the View tab of the main menu to open the Tasks page (View -&

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 14.2 Cancelling a task You can cancel the selected active task by clicking the Cancel button.

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Backing up: Windows Server 2012 Speed: 3.337 MB/s Schedule: Manual The Options section on the

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

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3 How Acronis Backup for VMware Works 3.1 Virtual machines backup and restore As with a physi

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

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15 Managing Recovery Points Click the Recovery Points button in the View tab of the main menu

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Managing Recovery Points, no locations available 15.1 Adding a backup location Optionally

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

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

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 15.5.2 Exchange Recovery Click the Exchange Recovery button in the ribbon menu to extract t

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16 Other Operations 16.1 Validating backups Validating backups is an operation that checks th

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After selecting the validation item type, define the backup location. You can either specify a

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 16.2.1 Mounted VM(s) list The Mounted VM(s) view provides an overview on the virtual machines

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Location: \\172.20.24.68\BackupLocation\ Archive: Archive(4) 172.20.24.120:443 Virtual Machine