Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide - Manual (Page 11)

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4 Installation of Acronis Backup for VMware
4.1 Requirements
4.1.1 Supported operating systems
Acronis Backup for VMware supports the following operating systems:
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Windows XP Professional SP2 (x64), SP3 (x86).
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Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86,
x64).
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Windows Vista - all editions (x86, x64).
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Windows 7 - all editions (x86, x64).
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Windows 8, 8.1.
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Windows Server 2008 - the Standard, Enterprise, Foundation editions (x86, x64).
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Windows Small Business Server 2008.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Foundation editions.
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Windows Small Business Server 2011.
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Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2.
4.1.2 System requirements
System requirements (Installation)
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)
Backup for VMware 80 MB 1 GB 500 MB
To perform each task (Backup, Restore, RunVM, Validate, etc.) the Agent needs about 100 MB of
memory. Acronis Backup for VMware 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 Backup for VMware 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).
Supported vSphere environments
Here is a list of supported environments for Acronis Backup for VMware:
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VMware vSphere (Virtual Infrastructure).
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Server types: ESX and ESXi.
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Versions: 4.0*, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5.
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Editions/Licenses.
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VMware vSphere Standard (Hot-add backup mode is supported on vSphere 5.0+ only).
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VMware vSphere Advanced.