Acronis Backup can back up and recover virtual machines running in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. Backup and recovery become available by installing Agent for Linux or Agent for Windows into the guest systems. This means that Acronis Backup will treat the virtual machines as physical ones and provide the full scope of functionality it provides for physical machines. This also means that operations are not possible on the machines that are powered off.
Using Acronis Backup Management Server, you can:
In addition, you can directly manage each individual machine by connecting Acronis Backup Management Console to it.
Acronis Backup provides several migration methods for you to easily migrate physical machines to the RHEV environment. The methods differ in complexity and flexibility. They cover all possible scenarios of migration. These methods can also be used to migrate a virtual machine from a different virtualization platform to the RHEV platform.
Licensing
You need a license for each host running at least one machine that needs backing up. Taking into account that machines migrate within a cluster, you need one license for each clustered host. An Acronis Backup Advanced for RHEV license enables backing up an unlimited number of virtual machines which run on the same host and an unlimited number of migrations to that host.
To install the product in the trial mode, you do not need a license key. In the trial mode, you can back up the hosted machines during a limited time period and perform three migrations to the host.
Supported versions of RHEV
Supported guest OS
Acronis Backup supports all the virtualized guest operating systems supported by RHEV.