2743: Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V

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Last update: 20-10-2010

Acronis Agent for Hyper-V installs on Windows 2008 Server x64 (any edition) or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Hyper-V Integration Services must be installed on the guest system

Introduction

(!) Acronis Agent for Hyper-V is available only in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition.

Install Hyper-V Integration Services on the guest system:

  1. Run the guest operating system;
  2. Select Action -> Insert Integration Services Setup Disk;
  3. The server connects the ISO image of the setup disk to the machine. Follow the onscreen instructions.

(!) See also Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Over Beta Versions.

Solution

Install Acronis Agent for Windows on the Hyper-V host system. See Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows;

Install Acronis Agent for Hyper-V on the Hyper-V host system. There are two ways to do this:

  • Run the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation file on the Hyper-V host system. Click Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V. Follow the onscreen instructions.
  • Run the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation file on any supported Windows machine. Extract Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V. Copy the extracted AcronisAgentHyperV.msi file to the Hyper-V host machine and run it.

More information

Acronis Agent for Hyper-V can only be installed when there is Acronis Agent for Windows installed.

When installing Acronis Agent for Windows, you will be asked to specify Acronis License Server.

When installing Acronis Agent for Hyper-V over Acronis Agent for Windows, you will again be asked to specify Acronis License Server.

Please also remember that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition licensing policy covers 1 physical machine, 99 virtual machines running on the same host. See also Acronis Product Licensing Table.

See also Virtual Machines Supported by Acronis Products.

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