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Table of contents
1 Administrator's Guide ............................................................................................................4
1.1 About this document ................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud ............................................................ 4
1.2.1 Software requirements ................................................................................................................................... 4
1.2.2 Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud architecture .................................................................................... 5
1.2.3 Planning hardware resources ......................................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud ...................................................................... 9
1.3.1 Preparation ...................................................................................................................................................... 9
1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server ............................................................................................... 10
1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery Management Server ...................................................................... 11
1.3.4 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 14
1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server ......................................................................... 15
1.3.6 Deploying Agent for ESX(i) ............................................................................................................................ 15
1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for vCloud ............................................................................ 17
1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery Agent for vCloud ........................................................................ 17
1.3.9 Checking network connections .................................................................................................................... 20
1.3.10 Uninstallation ................................................................................................................................................ 21
1.4 Logging in to the backup service .............................................................................................22
1.5 Administering organizations ....................................................................................................22
1.5.1 Monitoring organizations ............................................................................................................................. 22
1.5.2 Enabling backup for an organization ........................................................................................................... 23
1.5.3 Disabling backup for an organization .......................................................................................................... 25
1.5.4 Operating within an organization ................................................................................................................ 26
1.6 Configuring the backup service ...............................................................................................26
1.6.1 Managing system backup plans ................................................................................................................... 28
1.7 Generating usage reports ........................................................................................................29
1.8 Advanced cases ........................................................................................................................30
1.8.1 Recovery of files from a backup of a virtual machine ................................................................................ 30
1.8.2 Disaster recovery of physical machines to vCloud ..................................................................................... 31
1.8.3 Changing the backup storage ....................................................................................................................... 32
2 User's Guide ........................................................................................................................ 34
2.1 About the backup service ........................................................................................................34
2.2 Supported web browsers .........................................................................................................34
2.3 Installing VMware Tools ..........................................................................................................34
2.4 Basic operations .......................................................................................................................35
2.4.1 Logging in to the service ............................................................................................................................... 35
2.4.2 Backing up virtual machines ......................................................................................................................... 35
2.4.3 Applying a backup plan ................................................................................................................................. 36
2.4.4 Overwriting a virtual machine with its backed-up version ........................................................................ 37
2.4.5 Recovering a virtual machine ....................................................................................................................... 38
2.4.6 Monitoring protection statuses ................................................................................................................... 40
2.5 Operations with backups .........................................................................................................40
2.6 Operations with backup plans .................................................................................................41
2.6.1 Creating a backup plan ................................................................................................................................. 41
2.6.2 Editing a backup plan .................................................................................................................................... 44