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4 Installation of Acronis vmProtect 7
4.1 Requirements
4.1.1 Supported operating systems
Acronis vmProtect 7 supports the following operating systems:
 Windows XP Professional SP2 (x64), SP3 (x86).
 Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86,
x64).
 Windows Vista - all editions (x86, x64).
 Windows 7 - all editions (x86, x64).
 Windows Server 2008 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions
(x86, x64).
 Windows Server 2008 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter,
Foundation editions.
4.1.2 System requirements
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)
vmProtect 7
80 MB
1 GB
500 MB
To perform each task (Backup, Restore, RunVM, Validate, etc.) the Agent needs about 100Mb of
memory. Acronis vmProtect 7 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 vmProtect 7 reserves and always uses the following system TCP ports: 111
(sunrpc), 9000 (WCS), 764 (nfs_server), 9876 (Remote Agent Service).
Here is a list of supported environments for Acronis vmProtect 7:
 VMware vSphere (Virtual Infrastructure).
 Server types: ESX and ESXi.
 Versions: 4.1, 5.0.
 Editions/Licenses.
 VMware vSphere Standard (Hot-add is NOT supported).
 VMware vSphere Advanced.
 VMware vSphere Enterprise.
 VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus.
 VMware vSphere Essentials (Hot-add is NOT supported).
 VMware vSphere Essentials Plus (Hot-add is NOT supported).
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free ESXi) is NOT supported.