vSphere capacity requirements for the components of Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud

This article applies to:

• Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud

Description

Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance)

Agents for ESX(i) run as virtual appliances in the vCloud resource group. If a cluster contains a big number of backed up virtual machines, you may want to deploy more than one agent to this cluster.

vSphere capacity requirements for Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance):

Memory	Disk Size	CPU Number
1 GB	6 GB (thick provisioning)	2 (the default Virtual Appliance setting) 4-8 (recommended if backing up 5-10 VMs simultaneously)

 

Agent for vCloud

Agent for vCloud needs to be imported from the OVF template to the management cluster.

vSphere capacity requirements for Agent for vCloud:

Memory	Disk Size	CPU Number
2 GB	8 GB (thick provisioning)	1

Management Server

Acronis Management Server needs to be installed in the management cluster on a virtual machine running Windows.

vSphere capacity requirements for a machine running Windows Server 2003/2008 R2 and the specified components:

Components	Memory	Disk Size	CPU Number
Management Server + Management Console	2 GB	min 20 GB (thick provisioning)	1
Management Server + Management Console + Microsoft SQL Server Express (installed by default with the Management Server)	3 GB	min 30 GB (thick provisioning)	2

More information

See also Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud.