Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud - Administrator's Guide - Manual (Page 9)

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1 GB
6 GB (thick
provisioning)
2 (the default Virtual Appliance setting)
4-8 (recommended if backing up 5-10 VMs simultaneously)
Agent for vCloud
Agent for vCloud needs to be imported from the OVF template to the management cluster.
The following table shows vSphere capacity requirements for Agent for vCloud.
Memory Hard disk size CPU number
2 GB
8 GB (thin
provisioning)
1
Management Server
Acronis Backup Management Server needs to be installed in the management cluster on a virtual
machine running Windows.
The following table shows vSphere capacity requirements for a machine running Windows Server
2003/2008 R2 and the specified components.
Software installed on the machine Memory Hard disk size CPU number
Management Server + Management Console 2 GB
min 20 GB (thick
provisioning)
1
Management Server + Management Console + Microsoft SQL
Server Express (installed by default with the management
server)
3 GB
min 30 GB (thick
provisioning)
2
1.2.5.2 Planning backup storages
Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud stores backups in shared folders on the network.
Supported network protocols
The following network protocols are supported:

NFS
For information about how to prepare an NFS storage, see "Configuring an NFS storage" (p. 10).

SMB

BSP (protocol for accessing Acronis Backup Storage Node)
Acronis Backup Storage Node supports deduplication of the backed-up data. For information
about configuring a storage with deduplication, see "Setting up deduplication" (p. 37).

FTP

SFTP
Backup storages
A backup storage is a folder allocated for storing organization's backups. A path to a backup storage
should be specified in one of the following formats:

NFS
nfs://ServerX/ExportPath:/PathInExportFolder (for example:
nfs://Server/Backups/Organizations:/OrgName)
Note the colon after the export folder path. To specify the export folder without a subfolder, use
the following notation: nfs://ServerX/ExportPath:/