A full Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition license is needed in order to install Acronis Agent for Hyper-V
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Virtual Machines
Description
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V protects virtual machines residing on a Hyper-V virtualization server. The agent allows backing up virtual machines from the host without having to install agents on each virtual machine. The agent installs on Windows 2008 Server x64 (any edition) or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows.
(!) Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V is only available in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. It is impossible to install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V with the license key for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Virtual Machines.
Solution
If you need to manage your virtual machines with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V, you need to purchase a full license of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition. This version allows to manage local backups and to install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V in your environment.
To protect Hyper-V virtual machines with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Virtual Machines license you can install of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows/for Linux inside virtual machines to save backups to online storage.
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