| Feature | Acronis Backup for VMware 9 | Acronis Backup 12.5 Virtual Host |
| Supported configurations | ||
| VMware ESX(i) support | YES | YES |
| Hyper-V support | NO | YES |
| Virtual Appliance | YES | YES (in on-premise deployment) |
| Agent for VMware (installed on a Windows machine) | YES | YES |
| Backup | ||
| Backup of virtual machines | YES | YES |
| Backup with dual destination (replication of backups) | YES | YES |
| Application-aware backup of virtual machines | YES | YES |
| ESX(i) host configuration backup | YES | YES |
| Specifying archive name | YES | YES |
| E-mail notifications | YES | YES |
| Backup validation | YES | YES |
| Backup validation on schedule | NO | YES |
| Encryption | YES | YES |
| Backup to FTP | YES | NO |
| Backup to SFTP | YES | YES |
| Acronis Cloud backup proxy (specifying proxy server settings) | YES | NO* |
| Virtualization | ||
| Running a virtual machine from a backup of a virtual machine on VMware | YES | YES |
| Running a virtual machine from a backup of a virtual machine on Hyper-V | NO | YES |
| Running a virtual machine from a backup of a physical machine | NO | YES |
| Saving a VM running from a backup (finalizing VM) | NO | YES |
| Replication of virtual machines | YES | YES |
| Failover to a replica | YES | YES |
| Failback from a replica | YES | YES |
| Permanent failover to a replica | YES | YES |
| P2V migration | YES | YES |
| V2P migration | NO | YES |
| V2V migration | NO | YES |
| Backup of Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 virtual machines | NO | YES |
| Recovery | ||
| Restore of virtual machines | YES | YES |
| Restore of files | YES | YES |
| Restore of files into original location | NO | YES |
| Restore of mailboxes into original Exchange instance | NO | YES |
| Restore of mailboxes into a .pst-file | YES | NO |
| Automatically recover Virtual Machines when recovering ESX configuration | YES | NO* |
| VM restore to multiple datastores | YES | YES |
| Centralized management & administering | ||
| vSphere Desktop Client GUI (vCenter) integration | YES | NO* |
| Centralized monitoring of multiple hosts | partial (Centralized Dashboard) |
YES (Acronis Management Server) |
| Centralized management of multiple hosts | YES | YES |
| Centralized management of multiple vCenters | NO | YES |
| Centralized management of virtual and physical infrastructure | NO | YES** |
| Scalability | recommended: up to 50 VMs on host |
unlimited |
| Per archive deduplication | YES | NO* |
| Disaster Recovery Plan | YES | NO (planned) |
| Export/import configuration (backup plans) | YES | YES |
*Acronis is running additional market validation for the need of this product capability. Please, contact Acronis support if you would benefit from Acronis Backup 12.5 providing this product capability.
**Additional licenses of Acronis Backup 12.5 are required for physical machines, see Acronis Backup 12.5 licensing.