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When deploying directly to the ESX/ESXi server -
The account that will be used for agent
connection to the ESX server.
The management server will use this account to establish a trusted relationship with the agent
during registration. Centralized backup plans and recovery tasks, originating from the
management server, will run under this account by default. This means the account must have
the necessary privileges on the vCenter Server.
By default, the software will use the account that you have already specified, either when
configuring integration with the vCenter, or when getting access to the ESX/ESXi server. You have
the option to specify credentials for a different account if need be.
The virtual appliance's
time zone
will be set automatically according to the management server's
time zone. You can change the time zone directly in the virtual appliance GUI as described in
"Installing ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance." Changing the account or network settings is also possible
but is not recommended, unless it is absolutely necessary.
5.
Licenses
Click
Provide license
.
When installing the trial product version, select
Use the following trial license key
and enter the
trial license key. Deduplication is always enabled in the trial version.
When installing the purchased product, select
Use a license from the following Acronis License
Server
and specify the license server that has the appropriate number of licenses for Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition. You need one license for every host you
selected.
To be able to deduplicate backups, an agent needs a separately sold license for deduplication. If
you have imported such licenses into the license server, you can select the
Enable
deduplication...
check box to let the agents acquire these licenses.
6.
Click
Deploy ESX agent
.
Monitoring the deployment progress and result
Creating or updating virtual appliances may take some time. Watch the progress of the operations at
the bottom of the virtual machines' views underneath the
Information
bar. After a virtual appliance
is created and registered, a corresponding group of virtual machines appears on the management
server.
If the deployment completed but the group of virtual machines is missing
Access the virtual appliance console using the vSphere/VMware Infrastructure client and check the
agent configuration. Configure the agent manually, if required, as described in "Installing ESX/ESXi
virtual appliance." Add the virtual appliance to the management server manually as described in
"Adding a machine to the management server (p. 290)."
7.1.4.4
Support for vCenter clusters
In a vCenter cluster, a single Agent for ESX/ESXi backs up virtual machines hosted on all the cluster’s
hosts.
Deploying Agent for ESX/ESXi to a cluster
When configuring the agent deployment from a management server, you can select a cluster as a
regular ESX host. The agent virtual appliance (VA) is deployed to a storage shared by all the cluster’s
hosts. Normally, this is an NFS share or a SAN-LUN attached to each of the hosts.
Let’s assume that the cluster contains three servers.
