Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide - Manual (Page 125)

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Registered machine
A virtual machine managed by Acronis Backup for VMware Agent. All virtual machines which reside
on the registered ESX(i) host or vCenter are automatically registered and can be managed by Acronis
Backup for VMware Agent.
Replication
A process of replicating the virtual machine to new location (new datastore and/or resource pool). As
the result of this process there will be a duplicate virtual machine created which is running
independently from the original one.
Resource Pool
A VMware term describing the concepts of resource management in an ESX(i) virtualized
environment. A resource pool provides a way to divide the resources of a stand-alone ESX(i) host or
an ESX(i) cluster into smaller pools. A resource pool is configured with a set of CPU and memory
resources that the virtual machines that run in the resource pool share. Resource pools are
self-contained and isolated from other resource pools.
One can combine multiple physical servers into a single resource pool that aggregates CPU and
memory capacity.
Virtual machines execute in, and draw their resources from, resource pools. This arrangement allows
virtual machine workloads to continuously balance across resource pools. When the workload
increases, the vCenter Server automatically allocates additional resources and transparently migrates
virtual machines between hosts in the resource pool.
S
Storage vMotion
VMware vCenter specific feature which allows moving a running virtual machine from one storage
device to another.
T
Task
In Acronis Backup for VMware, a task is a sequence of actions to be performed on a registered
machine at a certain time or when a certain event occurs. The actions are described in an xml script
file. The start condition (schedule) exists in the protected registry keys (for Windows-based Agent) or
in protected files (for Appliance-based Agent).