Remote installation

Issue

For my Acronis Cloud Security product, I want to perform remote installation of the Host Management Service on the Hyper-V host(s) that are accessible in the network. How do I do that?

 

Resolution

Remote installation option allows you to install the Host Management Service on multiple Hyper-V hosts simultaneously over the network.

For information on how to prepare machines for remote installation of the components see Acronis Snap Deploy: Preparing Machines for Remote Installation.

If you have Acronis Snap Deploy 4 components installed on the machines, you can install Acronis Snap Deploy 5 components over them.

Do the following to install Acronis Snap Deploy remotely:

Prepare machines for remote installation of Acronis Snap Deploy components

  • If you are running Windows 10, disable User Account Control (UAC) or enable and use the built-in administrator.

Symptoms

  1. You try to install an Agent on a Windows XP 32-bit machine via Devices -> Add -> Windows or try to remotely update the already installed Agent on a Windows XP 32-bit machine.
  2. Installation fails with the following errors:

    Failed to launch installation or update support service on host <hostname>. Failed to launch service with error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application

    and

    Installation files are not found

Cause

Issue in the product.

Instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 issues.

This article applies to:

  • Acronis Snap Deploy 6
  • Acronis Snap Deploy 5
  • Acronis Snap Deploy 4

Introduction

Always make sure you are troubleshooting installation issues with the latest build of the product (if it is possible). You can always check for the latest update in your Acronis account.

Symptoms

  1. Acronis Management Server is installed on a 64-bit machine
  2. When you attempt to add a device with 32-bit architecture, the installation fails with the following error:

     Installation process failed. {"Result":"Failed", "Code":"24510491", "Description":"Failed to download installation file 'resource.xml' from the server."}

Instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve installation issues.

This article applies to:

  • Acronis Backup for VMware (Acronis vmProtect) 

Introduction

Always make sure you are troubleshooting installation issues with the latest build of the product (if it is possible).

 Solution

Follow these steps to troubleshoot installation issues:

Symptoms

You're attempting to install the Acronis Agent remotely from the management console into the Domain Controller machine; Installation fails with: "The operation has failed with result '1603'"

AB64 log (C:\ProgramData\Acronis\InstallationLogs\"logdate"\AB64.msi.log) on the the target machine shows the following error:

Symptoms

  • Remote installation to Windows Server OS failed with the "The operation has failed with result '1603'" error
  • The server is a Domain Controller

The msi package installation log that can be found at C:\ProgramData\Acronis\InstallationLogs folder contains the following error: