System requirements

System requirements (Installation)

The components installed in Windows:

Edition name	Memory (above the OS and running applications)	Disk space required during installation or update	Disk space occupied by the component(s)
Backup for VMware	80 MB	1 GB	500 MB

To perform each task (Backup, Restore, RunVM, Validate, etc.) the Agent needs about 100 MB of memory. Acronis Backup for VMware could perform parallel tasks (such as parallel backup tasks, etc) of up to 5 tasks at a time. If more than 5 tasks are run simultaneously, the Agent will process only the first 5 tasks, while the other tasks will remain in the queue with the “waiting” status.

Also, note that Acronis Backup for VMware reserves and always uses the following system TCP ports: 111 (sunrpc), 9000 (WCS), 764 (nfs_server), 9876 (Remote Agent Service), and UDP port: 2049 (nfs).

Supported vSphere environments

Here is a list of supported environments for Acronis Backup for VMware:

VMware vSphere (Virtual Infrastructure).
Server types: ESX and ESXi.
Versions: 4.0*, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0.
Editions/Licenses.
- VMware vSphere Standard (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).
- VMware vSphere Advanced.
- VMware vSphere Enterprise.
- VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus.
- VMware vSphere Essentials (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).
- VMware vSphere Essentials Plus (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free ESXi) is NOT supported.

(*) ESX(i) version 4.0 environment is supported with exceptions, for example, Exchange Server Backup Extraction and ESXi configuration backup features are not supported.

System requirements for backed up virtual machines

Supported versions of Microsoft Exchange: MS Exchange Server 2003 SP2+, MS Exchange Server 2007, MS Exchange Server 2010, MS Exchange Server 2013 (backup and restore of databases ONLY). Extracting MS Exchange databases located on Windows dynamic disks (LDM) is NOT supported.

Supported versions of Microsoft SQL: MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2008, MS SQL Server 2012.

Supported versions of Microsoft SharePoint: MS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2, MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2, MS SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1, MS SharePoint Server 2010 SP1, MS SharePoint 2013 Technical Preview.

Acronis Backup for VMware supports the following file systems for the backed up virtual machines: NTFS/FAT16/FAT32/ext2/ext3/ext4/ReFS. For other VM file systems sector level backup mode is used, which means that granular recovery from such archives is not possible (only entire VMs can be restored). An example of unsupported file systems are Linux LVM volumes (or Windows Dynamic Disks). They are backed up in sector-by-sector mode.

Please, note, that the following environments for the backup/restore operations are NOT supported:

RDM disks (Raw Device Mapping).
Fault tolerance VMs.

Also, independent virtual drives CANNOT be backed up when the virtual machine is turned on. Please, power off such VMs before their back up.

System requirements for web console

For the smooth operation of the Acronis Backup for VMware Web Console, you should have one of the following versions of your web browser:

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or higher.
Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher.
Opera 10.0 or higher.
Safari 5.0 or higher.
Google Chrome 10.0 or higher.

For proper Web Console operation with IE 8, please, check your internet settings. Tools -> Internet Options -> Security tab -> Internet -> Security level shoud not be set to “High”. Level of privacy at the Privacy tab should be set to “Medium High” or lower.

For proper Web Console operation with IE 9, please, check your internet settings. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” option must be cleared. Otherwise the File Recovery feature will not function properly.