Document Outline

• 1 Introducing Acronis Backup for VMware
• 2 Acronis Backup for VMware Overview
  • 2.1 Acronis Backup for VMware Features
• 3 How Acronis Backup for VMware Works
  • 3.1 Virtual machines backup and restore
  • 3.2 Backup archive structure
    • 3.2.1 Multiple files backup scheme (Legacy mode)
    • 3.2.2 Single file backup scheme (Always Incremental mode)
• 4 Installation of Acronis Backup for VMware
  • 4.1 Requirements
    • 4.1.1 Supported operating systems
    • 4.1.2 System requirements
    • 4.1.3 How to install VMware Tools
    • 4.1.4 Privileges for VM backup and recovery
  • 4.2 Installation options
    • 4.2.1 Installing Acronis Backup for VMware as Virtual Appliance on an ESX(i) host
    • 4.2.2 Installing Acronis Backup for VMware as Windows Agent
    • 4.2.3 Extracting installation files
    • 4.2.4 Configuring ESX(i) host connection settings
    • 4.2.5 Using a locally attached storage
  • 4.3 Uninstalling Acronis Backup for VMware
• 5 Getting started
  • 5.1 Dashboard Management
  • 5.2 Using Web Console
    • 5.2.1 Ribbon tabs
    • 5.2.2 Logout link
• 6 vCenter Integration
• 7 Centralized Dashboard
• 8 Backup
  • 8.1 Select VM(s) to back up
  • 8.2 When to back up
  • 8.3 Where to back up
  • 8.4 How to back up
    • 8.4.1 Application-Aware Backup Settings
    • 8.4.2 Backup validation
    • 8.4.3 Other settings
    • 8.4.4 Completing the Create backup task wizard
  • 8.5 Options
    • 8.5.1 Archive Protection
    • 8.5.2 Source Files Exclusion
    • 8.5.3 Compression Level
    • 8.5.4 Error Handling
    • 8.5.5 Disaster Recovery Plan
    • 8.5.6 Notifications
    • 8.5.7 Additional Settings
  • 8.6 Managing created backup task
• 9 Replication
  • 9.1 New Replication Task
    • 9.1.1 Select VM(s) for Replication
    • 9.1.2 When to Replicate
    • 9.1.3 Select location and datastore for replica
    • 9.1.4 Replication task options
  • 9.2 Managing replicated VMs
    • 9.2.1 Replicated VM Manager
    • 9.2.2 Failover
    • 9.2.3 Failback VM from Replica
    • 9.2.4 Deleting Replica VM
    • 9.2.5 Permanent failover
• 10 Recovery
  • 10.1 Restoring a Backup of Virtual Machines
    • 10.1.1 Select VM(s) to restore
    • 10.1.2 Where to restore
    • 10.1.3 How to restore
    • 10.1.4 Options
      • 10.1.4.1 Notifications
      • 10.1.4.2 Error Handling
      • 10.1.4.3 VM power management
      • 10.1.4.4 Additional Settings
      • 10.1.4.5 Exchange Restore Settings
    • 10.1.5 Managing created restore task
  • 10.2 File Recovery
    • 10.2.1 Select VM(s) to extract files from
    • 10.2.2 Explore Recovery Point
  • 10.3 Microsoft Exchange Server Backup Extraction
    • 10.3.1 Extracting Databases
    • 10.3.2 Extracting Mailboxes
    • 10.3.3 Extracting Mailboxes content
  • 10.4 Microsoft SQL Server Databases Extraction
  • 10.5 Microsoft SharePoint Server Data Extraction
• 11 Running VM from Backup
  • 11.1 Select VM(s) to run from backup
  • 11.2 Where the VM(s) will be run
  • 11.3 Additional Settings
  • 11.4 Managing created “Run VM from Backup” activity
• 12 P2V Migration
  • 12.1 How to Perform a P2V Migration
• 13 Bare Metal Recovery of ESXi Hosts
  • 13.1 ESXi host configuration backup
  • 13.2 ESXi host configuration recovery
• 14 Managing Tasks
  • 14.1 Running a task
  • 14.2 Cancelling a task
  • 14.3 Editing a task
  • 14.4 Deleting a task
  • 14.5 Viewing task logs
  • 14.6 Viewing task details
• 15 Managing Recovery Points
  • 15.1 Adding a backup location
  • 15.2 Virtual Machines catalog
  • 15.3 Recovery Points list
  • 15.4 Summary tab
  • 15.5 Operations on selected items
    • 15.5.1 Restore
    • 15.5.2 Exchange Recovery
    • 15.5.3 Run VM from backup
    • 15.5.4 File recovery
    • 15.5.5 Validate
    • 15.5.6 Delete
• 16 Other Operations
  • 16.1 Validating backups
    • 16.1.1 What to validate
  • 16.2 Managing mounted VM(s)
    • 16.2.1 Mounted VM(s) list
    • 16.2.2 Mounted VM(s) details
    • 16.2.3 Unmounting VM(s)
  • 16.3 Managing logs
    • 16.3.1 Logs list
    • 16.3.2 Clear logs
    • 16.3.3 Log cleanup rules
    • 16.3.4 Save logs to file
  • 16.4 Managing licenses
    • 16.4.1 Adding license
    • 16.4.2 Adding license failure
    • 16.4.3 Removing license/ESX(i) host
    • 16.4.4 Available Licenses
  • 16.5 Managing ESX(i) hosts
    • 16.5.1 ESX(i) hosts list
    • 16.5.2 Adding ESX(i) host
    • 16.5.3 Adding an ESX(i) host which is a part of vCenter
    • 16.5.4 Login credentials
    • 16.5.5 Removing ESX(i) host
  • 16.6 Managing settings
    • 16.6.1 Cloud Backup Subscription
    • 16.6.2 Cloud Backup Proxy
    • 16.6.3 Agent Password
    • 16.6.4 Export/Import Configuration
• 17 Best Practices
  • 17.1 Backing up virtual machines to a network share
  • 17.2 Restoring a backup of a virtual machine to a new location
  • 17.3 File/folders recovery
• 18 Support
  • 18.1 Technical Support
  • 18.2 Troubleshooting
• 19 Glossary
  • Agent (Acronis Backup for VMware Agent)
  • Always Incremental archive
  • Archive
  • Backup
  • Backup archive (Archive)
  • Backup operation
  • Backup options
  • Backup scheme
  • Backup task (Task)
  • Bootable agent
  • Bootable media
  • CBT (Changed Block Tracking)
  • Cleanup
  • Console (Acronis Backup for VMware Management Console)
  • Datastore
  • Deduplication
  • Differential backup
  • Direct management
  • Disk group
  • Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • Dynamic disk
  • Dynamic volume
  • Encrypted archive
  • Full backup
  • GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son)
  • High Availability (HA)
  • Incremental backup
  • Legacy mode Archive
  • Machine (Virtual machine)
  • Media builder
  • P2V
  • Recovery point
  • Registered machine
  • Replication
  • Resource Pool
  • Storage vMotion
  • Task
  • Universal Restore (Acronis Universal Restore)
  • Validation
  • Validation rules
  • vApp
  • vCenter
  • vMotion