The Acronis Backup for VMware Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) of the ESXi host feature provides a totally unique functionality that helps you minimize the recovery time if the ESXi server crashes, fails to start or doesn’t work properly after a patch update. The feature allows you to restore ESXi server binaries and patches, ESXi configuration, and missing VMs (VMs present in backups, but missing on the datastores; VMs should be backed up separately) after the ESXi server is recovered and started.
Bare Metal Recovery supports only VMware ESXi version 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5, and does not support ESX.
The following sections describe how ESXi host configuration backup and recovery can be configured.