Acronis vmProtect is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution designed for VMware vSphere environments

This article applies to:

• Acronis vmProtect 6
• Acronis vmProtect 7

Description

Acronis vmProtect is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution designed for VMware vSphere environments. It enables organization to perform an agentless backup of entire ESX or ESXi virtual machines with the ability to recover entire machines or individual files and folders.

General product description and how-tos

• Acronis vmProtect 7: System Requirements
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Supported Operating Systems
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Supported Environments
• Acronis vmProtect: License Policy
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Installation
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Required Windows User Privileges
• Upgrading to Acronis vmProtect 7
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Web Console
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Web Console: Login Credentials
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Changing Root Password
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Adding ESX Host
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Backing Up
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Acronis Bootable Media
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Downloading Acronis Media Builder
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Installation of Acronis Bootable Media Builder
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Creating Acronis Bootable Media
• Acronis vmProtect 7: P2V Migration
• Acronis vmProtect 7: P2V Migration of Linux Is Not Supported
• Acronis vmProtect 7: File Recovery
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Adding Licenses
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Removing Licenses
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Restore
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Recovery Points
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Run VM from Backup
• Acronis vmProtect 7: E-Mail Notifications
• Acronis vmProtect: Using Virtual Appliance instead of Windows Agent
• Acronis vmProtect 6: File/Folder Exclusion
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Exchange-Aware Backup
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Disaster Recovery Plan
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Bare Metal Recovery of ESXi Hosts
• Acronis vmProtect 7: New Features and Enhancements
• Acronis vmProtect: Collecting Debug Logs for Virtual Appliance and Windows Agent
• Acronis vmProtect: Moving Backup from Appliance Attached Storage
• Acronis vmProtect: How to Remove Old Snapshots and Disks (Clean-up Virtual Appliance After Failure)
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Updating to the Latest Build
• Acronis vmProtect: Troubleshooting Virtual Appliance Installation (Deployment) Failures
• Acronis vmProtect: Collecting Logs for Online Backup Issues

Known issues

• Acronis vmProtect 6: Backup Fails with "Internal error: number of backed up sectors differs from counted - Fixed
• Acronis vmProtect 6 Web Console: "There is a problem with this website’s security certificate"
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Acronis Bootable Media Corrupts Unrecognized RAIDs - Fixed
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Task Cancel Is Pending Completion of Running Tasks - Fixed
• Acronis vmProtect 6: vCenter Shows "Cannot delete file" in the Log After Migrating a Mounted VM
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Email Notifications with TLS Encryption Fail
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Logon to Web Console Displays "Failed to obtain the host list from the license server" - Fixed
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Backup Reattempts Are Not Applied - Fixed
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Hosts Take Incorrect Number of Licenses - Fixed in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
• Acronis vmProtect 6: Impossible to Add Host to Windows Agent If Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Is Installed on The Same Machine - Fixed
• Acronis Backup & Recovery and Acronis vmProtect: Virtual machine backup fails with "Awaiting task 'CreateSnapshot' has failed. Reason: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore"
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Slow Backup/Replication Speed in Virtual Appliance-Based Installation
• Acronis vmProtect 7.0: Very Slow or No Connection to Web Console on Virtual Appliance
• Acronis vmProtect: "The drive is not ready" Error When Browsing a Network Share (typically hosted on a NAS)
• Acronis Backup for VMware: Backup Wizard Does Not Show Some of the VMs Existing on vCenter/ESX(i) Host
• Acronis Product Fails to Back Up a VMware ESX/ESXi Virtual Machine with "Creating a quiesced snapshot failed" or "An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine"
• Acronis vmProtect 7: After Upgrading from Acronis vmProtect 6 ESX Host Is Lost and Cannot Be Added
• Acronis vmProtect: "Update the existing Acronis Virtual Appliance" Is Missing Or There Is No Appliance In The List
• Acronis vmProtect: Backup Fails with "Awaiting task 'CreateSnapshot' has failed. Reason: Response timed out"
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Exchange-Aware Backup Fails with "VSS metadata is missing or corrupt"
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Recovery of Exchange Mailboxes Fails with "Failed to find object 'GUID' of type 'instance'"
• Acronis vmProtect: How to Remove Old Snapshots and Disks (Clean-up Virtual Appliance After Failure)
• Acronis vmProtect 7: Exchange-Aware Backup Task Creation Fails on Checking Credentials
• Acronis vmProtect: The "Validate Credentials" Check Fails When Enabling Exchange-Aware Backup Option
• Acronis vmProtect: Troubleshooting Virtual Appliance Installation (Deployment) Failures
• Acronis vmProtect: "Instances list is empty" Error in the Log of Backup or Replication Task
• Acronis vmProtect 7 (Windows Agent only): Scheduled Tasks Fail to Run If There Is No User Logged On into Windows
• Acronis vmProtect: "Failed to refresh the MetaInfo cache" Error Troubleshooting
• Acronis vmProtect: Virtual Machine Network Adapter Is Lost after Restore
• Acronis vmProtect: Error in Windows Event Log after Executing the Installation

More information

See also:

• Acronis vmProtect 8
• Acronis vmProtect 7 online documentation
• Acronis vmProtect 7 Release Notes