- Virtual Machines Supported by Acronis Products
- Virtual Machine Hosts Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition Supports
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Supported Virtualization Platforms
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Converting Backup Archive of a Windows System to a Virtual Machine
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Virtual Machine Conversion Does Not Support Citrix XenServer 5.6
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Virtual Edition: Agentless Backup of Fault Tolerant ESX Virtual Machines Is Not Supported
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Virtual Edition: Dashboard of Acronis Management Server Installed on a Guest System Does Not Show Updated Task Status
16577: Acronis Backup & Recovery: Agent and Agentless Backup of Virtual Machines
Created - Nov 29, 2010; Updated - Dec 16, 2011
Comparison chart on performing backups of virtual machines with Agent for Windows/Linux and with agentless backup of Virtual Edition
Description
Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition is designed and optimized specially for agentless backup of virtual machines: Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for ESX/ESXi and Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for Hyper-V allow you to perform backups of virtual machines without the need to install an agent on each guest system - agents only need to be installed on hosts.
The table below shows the main differences between agentless backup and using Agent for Windows/Agent for Linux to back up a virtual machine.
| Agentless backup | Agent for Windows/Linux | |
|---|---|---|
| Available in | Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition |
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| Licensing |
Backup of an unlimited number of virtual machines on the same physical host with 1 license of Acronis Backup & Recovery Advanced Server - Virtual Edition. If you are using clustered VMware ESX servers, you need 1 license for Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition per each ESX host in cluster. |
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| Installation | One Agent on host machine | One Agent on each virtual machine |
| Hosts supported |
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| What OS can be backed up? | Any operating system supported as guest by virtualization server. |
Operating systems supported by Agent for Windows / Agent for Linux. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Supported Operating Systems. |
| Back up selected files/folders inside virtual machine | NO** | YES |
| Back up to Online Storage | YES | YES |
| Exclude files/folders from backup | YES | YES |
| Recover backup to a virtual machine | YES*** | YES*** |
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Recover backup directly to virtualization server |
YES | NO |
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Backups can be recovered as virtual machines directly on ESX/ESXi and Hyper-V virtualization servers. Backups can also be recovered as virtual machines of the following types:
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Backups can only be recovered as virtual machines of the following types:
These machines can be imported into virtualization server manually.**** |
Legend:
- NO (grey) - Function not available
- YES (green) - Function available
* Other editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery also allow installing Agent for Windows/Linux on virtual machine. However, since their licensing policy does not offer any special treatment of virtual machines (1 license is per one machine, either physical or virtual) it is not recommended to use them to back up virtual machines.
** You can recover files and folders from a disk image.
*** Only Windows guests can be converted to virtual machine automatically.
**** (!) Even though virtual disk files have the same extensions, additional manipulations may be necessary to add virtual machines to virtualization servers. See Importing Converted VHD Virtual Disk to Citrix XenServer.
Virtual machines with Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for Windows/Linux installed inside will be shown in Physical Machines list in Acronis Management Server. Virtual machines backed up by Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for ESX/ESXi or by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V will be shown in Virtual Machines list.
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