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2 Acronis vmProtect 9 Overview
Acronis vmProtect 9 is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution designed for VMware
vSphere™ environments. It enables organizations to perform an agent-less backup of entire ESX(i)
virtual machines with the ability to recover entire machines or individual files and folders.
2.1 Acronis vmProtect 9 Features
Using Acronis award-winning imaging technology, Acronis vmProtect 9 creates an exact image
(backup) of the virtual machine, including guest operating system, configuration files and
applications, resource pool/vApp properties and datastore settings. It then provides you with the
ability to recover this backup to either the original ESX(i) host or to a new one. The ability to start a
virtual machine directly from a backup without performing an actual restore, making the VM
operational in a few seconds after a failure, is one of the key new features.
Other new features include:
An option to choose between virtual appliance or Windows-based installation.
Web-based easy-to-use user interface.
LAN-free backup with direct access to shared storage.
Instantly run a VM from a backup on an existing ESX(i) host for quick recovery.
New enhanced always incremental storage format for backups.
Simultaneously back up several virtual machines.
Support for vApp/resource pool settings backup/restore.
Change Block Tracking (CBT) support.
Disaster Recovery Plan.
Centralized Dashboard.
Main advantages of using Acronis vmProtect 9 are:
1. Ease-of-use. Acronis vmProtect 9 can be deployed either as virtual appliance or installed on a
Windows machine and is managed via brand new web-based interface. Given Acronis experience
in designing intuitive GUIs and focused target on VMware – the interface allows starting right
away without a need to investigate or read documentation, and avoids dangerous mistakes or
misconfiguration.
2. More functionality. In addition to standard backup and restore features, vmProtect 9 includes
unique functionality, such as: running virtual machine directly from backup; unlimited number of
P2V conversions; backup to cloud-based Acronis Cloud Storage; industry-standard 256-bit
encryption to protect backups.
3. Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). vmProtect 9 is priced per CPU, and a list prices are quite
low. Virtual Appliance does not require a dedicated machine or Windows license to operate, plus
a reliable and intuitive solution saves administrator’s time and management cost.
4. Safe investments by working with established vendor.
