Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud Update 1 Quick Start Guide
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Table of contents 1 What is Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud? ..................................................................4 2 Software requirements ....................................................................................................4 3 Components ....................................................................................................................5 4 What you need to start ...........................................................................................
This document describes how to quickly install and start using Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud. This document outlines the product usage and enables immediate "field testing." For more information about administering Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud, please refer to the Administrator's Guide that you can open by clicking the Help link in the web interface of the product.
3 Components Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud consists of multiple components that need to be installed on separate machines. Agents for VMware run as virtual appliances in the vCloud resource group. The default settings of the agent machine: 1 GB of memory, 6 GB of disk space, and two CPU. Management Server needs to be installed in the management cluster, on a virtual machine running Windows. Minimum requirements for the machine: 3 GB of memory, 30 GB of disk space, and two CPU.
4 What you need to start Make sure that: vCloud Director is installed and configured. You have the Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud installation package. The package consists of: You have license keys in a TXT file. For multiple license keys, the text format is one line per key. Acronis Backup Advanced setup program. Agent for vCloud OVF template. The script enable_remote_sql_access.js. You have a virtual machine to install the management server on.
5 Step-by-step instructions The following steps will guide you through the installation and basic use of Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud. They describe how to: Install and configure the main components of the product and the required software. Enable the backup service for an organization. Back up organization's virtual machines. Apply a backup plan to the virtual machines. Overwrite a virtual machine with its earlier version. Recover a virtual machine. 5.
Password: guest 7. Click Exchanges. 8. Under Add a new exchange: a. In Name, specify a name for a new exchange that will be used by Agent for vCloud. For example, specify vcdExchange. b. In Type, select topic. c. Leave the default values for all other settings. d. Click Add exchange. 9. Log in as an administrator to vCloud Director. 10. Click Administration. 11. Under System settings, click Extensibility. 12. Under Notifications, select the Enable notifications check box. 13.
5. Select the Centrally monitor and configure backing up of physical and virtual machines check box. 6. Provide the license for Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud. Enter your license keys or import them from a text file. 7. Choose whether the machine will participate in the Acronis Customer Experience Program (CEP). 8. Click Install to proceed with installation. 9. On successful installation, click Finish to close the wizard window.
5.2.2 Running the SQL Server configuration script 1. Copy the script enable_remote_sql_access.js that is distributed with the product, to the management server machine. Details. The script configures the SQL Server instance to be accessible to Agent for vCloud. It creates a new SQL Server account that Agent for vCloud will use, configures the instance to listen to a static port, and configures Windows Firewall to allow connections through that port. 2.
2. Сlick Connect to a management server. 3. Specify the host name or IP address of the current machine and the administrator credentials under which you installed the management server. 4. In the Navigation tree, click Virtual machines and then click Configure VMware vCenter integration. 5. Select the Enable integration with the following vCenter Server check box.
6. Specify the IP address or name of the vCenter Server for the resource group. Provide credentials of the vCenter Server administrator. Details. The management server will use this account when deploying agents. The agents will use this account to connect to the vCenter Server. Therefore, the account must have the necessary privileges for creating, backup, and recovery of virtual machines. 7.
If you disabled the automatic deployment, deploy the agent to every ESX(i) cluster whose virtual machines will be backed up. To deploy Agent for VMware 1. Connect the console to the management server as described in "Using the management console". 2. In the Navigation tree, expand Virtual machines, and then right-click the IP address or name of the vCenter Server for the resource group. 3. Click Deploy Agent for VMware. 4.
5.2.5 Installing Agent for vCloud Agent for vCloud is delivered as an OVF template. To install the agent, deploy the OVF template to your management cluster. Map the network in the OVF template to a network that provides access to the management cluster virtual machines and to the RabbitMQ Server host. For general information about deploying an OVF template, refer to the following VMware knowledge base article: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.
2. On the machine with Agent for vCloud, in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, find the file that corresponds to your region and time zone. For example, for the Eastern Time Zone of the United States, the time zone file is: /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern 3. Delete the old time zone settings: rm -f /etc/localtime 4. Specify the new time zone settings: ln -s /etc/localtime For example: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime Configuring connection parameters 1.
at least 20 GB of space for the temporary files. If necessary, add a separate disk to the management server's machine and create the folder on that disk. If the machine is a member of an Active Directory domain, specify the user name in the \\ (note the double backslash) or @ format. Alternatively, you can use an export folder on an NFS server. For example, you can use the machine with Agent for vCloud as the NFS server.
If both adapters use DHCP servers, the settings for both adapters are taken from the DHCP server for eth1 (provided that the list of DNS servers there is nonempty). 5.3 Enabling backup for an organization 1. Go to the login page of the backup service. The address of the login page looks as follows: https:///. When connecting from an internal network: is the fully qualified domain name, or the IP address of the Agent for vCloud host in this network.
6. Click Configure. 7. On the Backup storage tab, in Backup storage, specify the path to the shared folder allocated for storing organization's backups. If authentication is required to access the folder, specify the credentials of a user account that has read/write permissions for this folder. 8. Confirm the changes. 5.4 Backing up virtual machines 1. Select the organization. 2. Click Open. You are now in the organization administrator's interface. 3.
You can select a virtual machine either from the vApp to which the machine belongs, or from the All virtual machines list. 4. Click Back up now. The software can simultaneously back up as many as 10 virtual machines. The default number is 5. When the backup starts, up to five of the machines will have the Backing up protection status. The backup progress for a selected machine is displayed in the machine details area on the right. All of the organization's backups are displayed on the Backup storage tab.
Currently, you can select from the backup plans that are initially delivered with the software. A backup plan contains the following instructions for the backup service: Schedule: When and how often to do backups Retention rules: How long to store the backups Backup options: Whether to exclude specific files and folders (Exclusions); to send notifications about backup operation results (Notifications); and to encrypt backups (Encryption) 5. Click OK.
When the recovery starts, the machine will have the Recovering protection status. The progress of recovery is shown in the machine details area on the right. After the recovery is completed, the information about its success or failure is shown in the machine details area. 5.7 Recovering a virtual machine This is a common recovery procedure.
4. In Target vApp, specify the vApp to which the machine will be recovered. By default, the original vApp is selected. If the original vApp no longer exists in the organization, you can recreate the original vApp and recover the machine to it. To do so, select Recreate original vApp. The vApp will be created with parameters that it had when the machine was backed up. 5. In Name of the recovered machine, type a name that the recovered machine will have in the vApp.
The service shows the volumes, files, and folders that were present on the machine at that time. Volumes that you cannot recover files from are not shown. Select the files and folders that you want to recover, and then click OK. After the recovery is completed, the link to download the .zip file appears on the Backup storage tab in the machine details area on the right. The link is valid for 24 hours. You can use the link only when you are logged in to the service. The files are stored in the .
