Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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The diagram below illustrates a LAN-based and a LAN-free backup. LAN-free access to virtual
machines is available if you have a fibre channel (FC) or iSCSI Storage Area Network. To completely
eliminate transferring the backed up data via LAN, store the backups on a local disk of the agent's
machine or on a SAN attached storage.

Acronis Backup for VMware Windows Agent can be installed on any machine that runs Windows and
meets the system requirements. Here is a brief description of the steps you need to go through in
order to complete your Windows Agent installation.

1. First, read the Acronis Backup for VMware license agreement, select the acceptance check box

and then click Next.

2. Specify credentials for the Acronis services. The Acronis Managed Machine Service component

(responsible for the core functionality of Acronis Backup for VMware) runs as a service. Specify
the account under which the component's service will run after the installation (this account will
be automatically granted with “Log on as service” permissions on the machine). Here you should
provide the credentials of any Windows user which has “Log on locally” permissions on the
machine with the Agent installed. Typically, this can be any user account from “Administrators”,
“Power Users” or “Users” group. Set the HTTPs port, e.g. the default 9877 port. For access to
Acronis web console page after Acronis Backup for VMware Agent is installed, open your web
browser and enter “https://myserver:port” in the browser address bar.
Note that in order to successfully connect to your installed Agent through the browser (web
console), the name of your local PC where Acronis Backup for VMware is installed should not
contain an underscore (_) symbol. You should provide the credentials of any user with
Administrator privileges on the machine.