Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud - Administrator's Guide - Manual (Page 2)

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Table of contents
1 Administrator's Guide ......................................................................................................4
1.1 About this document ................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud ............................................................... 4
1.2.1 What's new in Update 3 ................................................................................................................................. 4
1.2.2 What's new in Update 1 ................................................................................................................................. 5
1.2.3 Software requirements ................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.4 Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud architecture ...................................................................................... 6
1.2.5 Planning hardware resources ......................................................................................................................... 8
1.3 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud.......................................................................11
1.3.1 Preparation .................................................................................................................................................... 11
1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server ............................................................................................... 12
1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup Management Server .......................................................................................... 13
1.3.4 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 17
1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server ......................................................................... 17
1.3.6 Deploying Agent for VMware ....................................................................................................................... 18
1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud ................................................................................................. 19
1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud ............................................................................................ 20
1.3.9 Checking network connections .................................................................................................................... 23
1.3.10 Updating to a new version ........................................................................................................................... 24
1.3.11 Uninstallation ................................................................................................................................................ 25
1.4 Logging in to the backup service .............................................................................................26
1.5 Administering organizations ....................................................................................................26
1.5.1 Monitoring organizations ............................................................................................................................. 26
1.5.2 Enabling backup for an organization ........................................................................................................... 27
1.5.3 Operating within an organization ................................................................................................................ 30
1.5.4 Enabling non-administrators to use the service ......................................................................................... 30
1.5.5 Disabling backup for an organization .......................................................................................................... 30
1.6 Configuring the backup service ...............................................................................................31
1.6.1 Managing system backup plans ................................................................................................................... 33
1.7 Generating usage reports ........................................................................................................34
1.8 Viewing audit logs ....................................................................................................................35
1.9 Collecting logs ..........................................................................................................................36
1.10 Advanced cases ........................................................................................................................36
1.10.1 Disaster recovery of physical machines to vCloud ..................................................................................... 36
1.10.2 Setting up deduplication ............................................................................................................................... 37
1.10.3 Changing the backup storage ....................................................................................................................... 37
1.10.4 Integration with third-party systems ........................................................................................................... 39
1.11 Security and customization......................................................................................................39
1.11.1 Changing the SSL certificate ......................................................................................................................... 39
1.11.2 Changing the logo and customizing the interface ...................................................................................... 40
2 User's Guide .................................................................................................................. 42
2.1 About the backup service ........................................................................................................42
2.2 Supported web browsers .........................................................................................................42
2.3 Installing VMware Tools ..........................................................................................................42
2.4 Basic operations .......................................................................................................................43
2.4.1 Logging in to the service ............................................................................................................................... 43