Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Workstation Quick Start Guide
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager”, “Acronis Active Restore” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.
1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines. With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe.
Delete volumes and clean up disks Hide/unhide volumes Specify i-node density Initialize newly added hard disks Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes, and file systems Acronis Recovery Expert Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.
3 Installation and operation 3.1 System requirements System requirements Component Memory (above the OS and running applications) Disk space required during installation or update Disk space occupied Additional by the component(s) Complete installation 300 MB 2 GB 1.
FAT16 FAT32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Reiser3 Linux SWAP The operations resulting in a change of volume size—that is: Create, Resize, Copy, Move, Merge, Split—are not available for the XFS, Reiser4, HPFS and JFS file systems. 3.4 Supported media Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD) USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.
8. Confirm opening of the Microsoft Windows Firewall port. Details. Acronis Disk Director uses TCP port 9876 for local installation and for communication between components. If you use a different firewall, make sure that the port is open for both incoming and outgoing requests through that firewall. 9. The summary window displays the list of components that will be installed on the machine. Click Install to proceed with the installation. 10. After the installation, click Close to exit the setup program.
5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the pending operations are completed. 6. Commit the pending operations. Monitor the operation progress in the Tasks view. Use the Log view to examine the history of operations performed on the machine. Some operations, such as changing the size of a volume from which Windows starts, may require restarting the machine.
The procedures below assume that you have an upgrade license key, but you can also use these procedures if you have a full license key. Upgrading Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite to Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation Before proceeding with the upgrade, make sure that: You have the license key for Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite. You have a full or upgrade license key for Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation. The upgrade procedure 1. 2. 3. 4.
