This article describes how to back up a virtual machine using Acronis True Image Echo and VMware Consolidated Backup
ESX
Description of the VMware vCenter intergration implemented in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Editions
If Acronis Management Server is installed on a guest operating system, which is backed up from the host, it will not display the correct task status on the dashboard
Connection to Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi (Virtual Appliance) fails after the ESX IP address change. As a result, scheduled Virtual Appliance backup tasks fail too
Deploy Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi to each host instead of deploying one to the cluster
To fix this, deploy the ESX agent on the ESX server whose virtual machines you want to back up and recover
You are either trying to back up a free VMware ESXi using Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi or you have not added a license to your paid version of VMware ESX/ESXi
Shut down the appliance, unmount all volumes of guest systems, uninstall the appliance and then install the one from the new build
Acronis Agent allows you to perform disk-level and file-level backup in Windows; it can also convert disk-level backup to a virtual machine, and has an add-on for Hyper-V
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Virtual machines should have unique UUIDs
ESX Server mounts the storage using UUID. With the hard disk changed, UUID changes too. Hence, ESX fails to mount
Virtual Appliance does not support restore of files from a disk backup. If you need to restore files from a disk backup, please use Acronis Agent
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server provides an easy way to deploy Agent for ESX/ESXi to every VMware ESX or ESXi server whose virtual machines you want to back up
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Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi is delivered as a virtual appliance
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition supports Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX/ESXi on the host level
Agentless backup is not supported for fault-tolerant virtual machines
Click Configure -> ESX Hosts -> Add
Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi installs on VMware ESX. All virtual machines can then be managed from Acronis Management Console connected to the installed Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi
Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi does not support free VMware ESXi. Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi supports VMware ESX as a component of VMware Infrastructure Foundation, VMware Infrastructure Standard, VMware Infrastructure Enterprise
Delete two registry keys to fix the issue
List of virtual machine applications supported by the latest versions of Acronis products
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup (Acronis Backup & Recovery) 11.5
List of supported environments. Free ESXi is not supported
Keep a copy of your backup archive in the virtual machine format ready for instant recovery
You attempt to run a backup from virtual guest and get this error. Change location of virtual guest or change block size of used datastore, so that the datastore blocksize and blocksize of virtual guest matches.
Virtual Appliance does not support restore of files from a disk backup. If you need to restore files from a disk backup, please use Acronis Agent
This has been fixed
Fixed in Acronis Backup 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5). As a workaround, revoke the license key and install the Acronis Agent in the guest OS