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