Licensing for virtual machines

Acronis offers a special licensing policy for virtual machines.

An Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server license enables the backing up of a physical host and four virtual machines.
An Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition license enables 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.
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 Virtual Edition license is required for your virtualization platform.

License name	Virtualization platform
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere	Any supported platform developed by VMware (i.e. ESX, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE)*
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V	Any supported platform developed by Microsoft (i.e. Hyper-V, Windows Virtual PC)*
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for RHEV	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Citrix XenServer	Citrix XenServer
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Parallels	Parallels Workstation Parallels Server Bare Metal
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Oracle VM Server	Oracle VM Server, Oracle VM VirtualBox
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition Multi-hypervisor	All of the above

*For the complete list of supported virtualization platforms, refer to "Supported virtualization platforms" in the "Backing up virtual machines" document.