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4 Installation of Acronis vmProtect 9
4.1 Requirements
4.1.1 Supported operating systems
Acronis vmProtect 9 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 8.
Windows Server 2008 - the Standard, Enterprise, Foundation editions (x86, x64).
Windows Small Business Server 2008.
Windows Server 2008 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Foundation editions.
Windows Small Business Server 2011.
Windows Server 2012.
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 9 80 MB 1 GB 500 MB
To perform each task (Backup, Restore, RunVM, Validate, etc.) the Agent needs about 100Mb of
memory. Acronis vmProtect 9 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 9 reserves and always uses the following system TCP ports: 111
(sunrpc), 9000 (WCS), 764 (nfs_server), 9876 (Remote Agent Service), and UDP port: 2049 (nfs).
Here is a list of supported environments for Acronis vmProtect 9:
VMware vSphere (Virtual Infrastructure).
Server types: ESX and ESXi.
Versions: 4.0*, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1.
Editions/Licenses.
VMware vSphere Standard (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).
VMware vSphere Advanced.
VMware vSphere Enterprise.
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus.
