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
ESXi
ESXi
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
This has been fixed
Virtual machines should have unique UUIDs
This has been fixed
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
This has been fixed
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
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
Click Configure -> ESX Hosts
The typical reason for a VM to be missing in the backup or replication wizard (unavailable for selection) is that this VM was created by Acronis vmProtect and is in fact a replica VM. It is not possible to back up replica VMs by default, however this may be possible after additional adjustments
Deploying the Agent for ESX(i) if it hasn't been deployed automatically during vCenter Server integration
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
Instructions on how to save the Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance logs to a network share
This article applies to:
This article describes, how to install the Agent for ESX(i) as Virtual Appliance or Agent in Windows.
To back up machines in an ESXi Free environment, regular Acronis Agent for Windows/Agent for Linux (as opposed to Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi or Acronis Agent for VMware) should be installed inside the virtual machines. Agentless backup is not supported.
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.
Unlock the partition using diskpart
If you need to change the account used by Acronis to log in to vCenter or ESX(i) host in version 5 and 6:
If you have virtual machines using duplicated BIOS UUID, you cannot see all existing virtual machines. Only one of them will be displayed. To fix this issue, you should change the BIOS UUID in one of the affected machines manually
This article applies to:
- Acronis Cyber Backup & Recovery 11.5
- Acronis Cyber Backup 11.7 - upgraded from earlier versions
- Acronis Cyber Backup 12/12.5 - upgraded from earlier versions