The licenses for virtual environments enable backing up a physical host and an unlimited number of hosted virtual machines.
You can install the product into the guest systems, back them up from the host, or combine both methods. Any Acronis Backup agent, including Agent for Exchange, Agent for SQL, and Agent for Active Directory, can be installed without additional licenses.
For a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V cluster, you need as many licenses as there are nodes in the cluster.
The following table enables you to define which license is required for your virtualization platform.
License name |
Virtualization platform |
Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware |
Any supported platform developed by VMware (ESX, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE)* |
Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V |
Any supported platform developed by Microsoft (Hyper-V, Windows Virtual PC)* |
Acronis Backup Advanced for RHEV |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) |
Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer |
Citrix XenServer |
Acronis Backup Advanced for Oracle VM |
Oracle VM Server Oracle VM VirtualBox |
Acronis Backup Advanced Universal License |
All of the above Parallels Workstation Parallels Server Bare Metal |
*For a complete list of supported virtualization platforms, refer to "Supported virtualization platforms" in the "Backing up virtual machines" document.