List of virtual machine applications supported by the latest versions of Acronis products

This article applies to:

• Acronis Backup (Acronis Backup & Recovery) 11.5

Description

It is possible to use the latest versions of all Acronis products under guest operating systems running on virtual machines as if they were run on a physical machine.

For the difference between the Agent and Agentless backup see Acronis Backup Advanced: Agent-based and Agentless Backup of Virtual Machines.

The following virtual machine software has been tested and is supported:

• VMware ESX/ESXi Server 3.5 Update 2 and later, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 - Agentless backup
• VMware Server - Agent backup
• VMware Workstation - Agent backup
• VMware Player - Agent backup
• VMware ACE - Agent backup

• MS Virtual Server 2005 - Agent backup
• MS Virtual PC 2004 - Agent backup
• MS Virtual PC 2007 - Agent backup
• Windows Virtual PC - Agent backup

• Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2 Hyper-V - Agentless backup

• Parallels Workstation - Agent backup
• Parallels Server 4 bare Metal - Agent backup

• Citrix XenServer 4.1.5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 - Agent backup

• Kernel-Based Virtual Machines - Agent backup

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 - Agent backup

• Oracle VM Server 3.0 - Agent backup
• Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.x - Agent backup

(!) Other virtual machines are also supported if the guest operating system is supported by the Acronis product.

More information

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server allows backup of one physical machine and up to four virtual machines on the same physical machine (see also Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Editions), for this the regular Acronis Agent for Windows needs to be installed in each VM. The drawbacks are:

• to restore on a new machine, the virtual machine needs to be created manually;
• 64 bit Windows needs to be restored using Acronis Bootable Media;
• restoring 32 bit Windows by choosing Virtual PC only works with drives up to 127 GB (see Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Limitations on Converting TIB to Citrix XenServer VHD).

See also:

• Acronis True Image Virtual Edition
• Importing Converted VHD Virtual Disk to Citrix XenServer
• Adding Converted VMDK Virtual Disk to VMware Virtual Machine
• Acronis True Image Echo: V2P and P2V Migration
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Support for VMware ESX/ESXi
• Virtual Machine Hosts Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition Supports
• Acronis Backup & Recovery: Agent and Agentless Backup of Virtual Machines