Acronis Cyber Backup for VMware / Hyper-V
Complete VMware vSphere® ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V® Backup

Overview:

Restore your VMware VMs 2X faster — even if you aren’t an IT expert.

Get an easy and safe VMware vSphere protection with Acronis Cyber Backup 12 - the fastest way to protect your virtual machine environment.

• Capture your entire system, including the host, with patented disk imaging integrated with VMware VADP / Microsoft VSS
• Achieve RTOs (recovery time objectives) as low as 15 seconds with Acronis Instant Restore™
• Recover a virtual machine 100X faster with vmFlashback
• Restore files, application data, VMs, or an entire hypervisor
• Enjoy unlimited P2V/V2V migrations from any source (even from a different hypervisor)

Protect All Your Virtual Machines

Acronis Cyber Backup is easy to use from any device - even from your tablet:

• Install and configure quickly with few clicks or touches
• Access easy-to-use web console from any mobile device
• Eliminate guesswork with smart backups that capture everything needed for complete recovery
• Browse and recover easily with VMware vCenter integration
• Replicate your VMware VMs with built-in replication and WAN optimization
• Back up and recover Microsoft Exchange®, SQL Server®, SharePoint® and Active Directory®, including granular recovery of individual emails and documents
• Protect non-VADP / non-VSS compliant VMs - fault-tolerant VMs or VMs using physical RDMs, pass-through disks, independent disks, and/or guest-initiated iSCSI.

Only Acronis Cyber Backup 12

• Protects your VMware ESXi hosts (not just VMs) and recovers them to dissimilar hardware for complete protection of your virtual infrastructure
• Protects every user by backing up Windows PCs and tablets, Mac computers, iPads, iPhones and any Android devices
• Includes Acronis Instant Restore™, reducing your recovery time objectives (RTOs) to seconds by running any physical or virtual Windows® or Linux® system backup as a VMware virtual machine (VM)
• Gives you complete control over the location of your data, systems, and backups — ensuring that you always know where your company data is, even if it is stored in the cloud

Key Features:

Cloud and Local Web Console
Use the innovative and intuitive web console to provision on-premises or use right away in the Acronis Cloud. Accessible from any device, even your tablet, the console will reduce your backup efforts to bare minimum.

Acronis vmFlashBack
When you need to roll back your Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere VM, Acronis Cyber Backup 12 will leverage the power of changed block tracking (CBT) technology to restore only the data changed since the last full backup. This will reduce recovery times and let you set aggressive RTOs.

Microsoft Business Applications Protection
Built-in application-aware, single-pass backup protects Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory. You can then restore individual emails, folders, documents, databases, or entire systems.

Acronis Instant Restore™
Run any physical or virtual, Windows, or Linux, backup on your existing Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere host directly from backup storage — no data movement necessary! Recovery is blazing fast so your system can be up and running in as fast as 15 seconds.

VMware vSphere Replication with WAN Optimization
Integrated VMware vSphere VM replication creates dependable replicas on your secondary site for quick failover, sandbox testing, and failback. Integrated WAN optimization ensures that replication completes as fast as possible and that you achieve target RPOs and RTOs.

Acronis Cloud Storage
Acronis Cyber Backup provides direct access to secure, offsite cloud backup in the Acronis cloud. Simply add an Acronis Cloud Storage subscription to your purchase to fortify your backup storage plan and enhance your data protection.

Additional Features

Bare-Metal Recovery
Disk-imaging technology allows you to create an exact replica of your system, configuration, and application data in one step. You can then restore the replica to a new drive, the same hardware, or dissimilar hardware.

Incremental and Differential Backups
Incremental and differential backups identify only the changes made since the last backup, significantly reducing backup time, network usage, and storage requirements.

System Performance
Network bandwidth and disk-write speed throttling allows you to control the impact of running backups during production hours.

Encrypted Storage
Encrypt your stored backups with industry-standard, in-flight and at-rest 256-bit AES encryption.

Compression
Built-in compression significantly reduces network usage and storage requirements.

Multiple Destinations
Store backup copies in multiple locations for flexible, reliable disaster recovery options. Includes support for local disks, networked storage, and Acronis Cloud Storage.

Backup Operations Scheduling
Backups can be automated based on simple or custom schedules, ensuring you achieve your target RPOs.

Backup Replication and Staging
Completed backup data is automatically replicated between various storage locations (including the Acronis Cloud). Staging automatically moves data to new storage when the retention period for the current storage expires.

Backup Validation
Manual or scheduled, automatic validation of backups ensures that your system and user data are recoverable.

Physical, Virtual, Cloud, Applications, Mobile
Acronis Cyber Backup 12 is the only backup solution that protects your physical Windows and Linux servers; virtual Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; cloud Microsoft Azure VMs and Amazon EC2 instances; Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory applications; Windows PCs, Macs, and soon — iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.

Benefits of Acronis Cyber Backup

Easy Backup
Be free of stress with exceptional ease of use

• Easily protect your entire VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and other systems with the intuitive cloud-based/on-premise web console
• Effortlessly provision with zero installation for the cloud console and only a few clicks for the on-premise console
• Restore VMs and hosts successfully to the same hardware or completely different hardware

Complete Protection
Get the broadest data protection tailored for your business backup needs:

• Safeguard all your virtual systems with best-in-class agentless and agent-based virtual backup of VMware ESX(i)™ and Microsoft Hyper-V® VMs and hosts
• Protect all your servers with trusted physical backup of Microsoft Windows® and Linux®
• Defend all your cloud workloads with unique integrated backup of Microsoft Azure® VMs and Amazon® EC2 instances
• Backup all your applications with single-pass backup and granular recovery of Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, and Active Directory®
• Keep all users happy with backup of Microsoft Windows PCs, Macs®, iPhone®, iPad®, and Android® devices

Safe Solution
Regain control of your own IT environment and achieve ultimate peace of mind with the industries safest business backup solution.

• Make your virtual infrastructure safe with built-in replication and WAN optimization, failover, sandboxing, and failback
• Make your business data safe with in-flight and at-rest encryption and password protection
• Control your infrastructure with alerting and email notifications
• Trust the safety of your data, knowing exactly where your backups are — even if stored in the cloud

Fast Results
Get rapid business data protection at your fingertips

• Provision quickly with zero installation of the cloud console and only a few clicks for the on-premise console
• Recover in seconds with Acronis Instant Restore™
• Back up fast with patented disk-imaging technology used by millions
• Roll back in no time with vmFlashback

Reliable Technologies
Depend on the business backup solution that safeguards millions of systems

• Rely on trusted Acronis Universal Restore to recover to dissimilar hardware
• Trust a disk-imaging technology invented and patented by Acronis
• Count on versatile recovery options — from single emails to entire systems
• Join the community of 500,000 businesses trusting Acronis to backup and protect their data

Requirements:

• Supported VMware vSphere ESX(i): 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, including vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi)
• Supported Microsoft Hyper-V: 2016, 2012R2, 2012, 2008R2, 2008
• Applications: Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory
• Storage: Local Disks, Networked Storage Devices, Acronis Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Storage
• Web Browsers: IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Detailed Requirements

Supported Operating Systems for On-Premise Console

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 x64
• Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7 (x64 edition)
• Linux x86_64 with kernel from 2.6.18 to 4.5 and glibc 2.3.4 or later

Supported Hypervisors

• VMware vSphere ESX(i) 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, including vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi)
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 with Hyper-V
• Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V

Supported Applications

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2005
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2

Supported Microsoft Windows

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003/2003 R2
• Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003/2003 R2
• Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010
• Windows Storage Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003
• Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)

Supported Linux

Linux with kernel from 2.6.9 to 4.5 and glibc 2.3.4 or later Various 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) Linux distributions including:

• – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x - 7.x
• – Ubuntu 9.10 - 16.04
• – Fedora 11 - 23
• – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 - 12
• – Debian 4 - 8.5
• – CentOS 5.x - 7.x
• – CloudLinux 7, 7.1
• – ClearOS 5.x, 6.x, 7, 7.1

Oracle Linux 5.x - 7.x (including UEK)

Supported OS X

• OS X 10.08 - 10.11

Supported Mobile Operating Systems

• iOS 8 - 9 (coming soon)
• Android 4.1 - 6.0.1 (coming soon)

Supported Cloud Workloads

• Amazon Web Services EC2 Instances
• Microsoft Azure VMs

Supported Storage

• Local disks - SATA, SCSI, IDE, RAID
• Networked storage devices - SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC
• Removable media - ZIP, Rev, RDX, etc.
• External HDDs and SSDs - USB 3.0/2.0/1.1and IEEE1394 (Firewire)
• Acronis Cloud Storage

File Systems

• FAT16/32
• NTFS
• HPFS
• ReFS*
• Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
• ReiserFS3 *
• ReiserFS4 *
• XFS *
• JFS *
• Linux SWAP

Web Browsers

• Microsoft Edge 25 or later
• Windows Internet Explorer 10 or later
• Google Chrome 29 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 23 or later
• Opera 16 or later
• Safari 8 or later (running in Apple OS X and iOS)

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Cyber Backup for VMware Datasheet (PDF).