Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud - Quick Start Guide - Manual (Page 5)

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3 Components
Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud consists of multiple components that need to be installed on
separate machines.
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Agents for VMware run as virtual appliances in the vCloud resource group.
The default settings of the agent machine: 1 GB of memory, 6 GB of disk space, and two CPU.
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Management Server needs to be installed in the management cluster, on a virtual machine
running Windows.
Minimum requirements for the machine: 3 GB of memory, 30 GB of disk space, and two CPU.
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Agent for vCloud needs to be imported from an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template to
the management cluster. The agent is a Linux virtual machine, which also serves as the web
server.
The default settings of the agent machine: 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of disk space, and one CPU.
The following diagram illustrates a typical installation and interaction of the components.