Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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The second step is to Select vmProtect 9 Backup Locations. Select the check box for the backup
location and enter its credentials in the pop-up window. The locations are listed. The selected
locations are colored grey and the locations that are not selected are colored yellow.

Locations are listed according to the contents of the ESXi host configuration backup archive, where
the information about VMs backup locations is stored (Recent Locations paths). You can add new
locations in this step. All these locations will be used to restore VMs backups after the ESXi host is up
and running. Moreover, the locations can be password protected and the credentials will be required
to access data after the ESXi server is recovered and Acronis vmProtect 9 starts to recover the
missing VMs. Only the following locations can be selected in this step:

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Network folders.

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FTP servers.

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SFTP servers.

ESXi Host Configuration Recovery

Note, if you do not select the VMs backup locations here, these VMs will not be recovered
automatically after the recovery of the initial ESXi server configuration. In this case, you will have to
recover the missing VMs manually.

Also note, that unpredictable issues may occur if you restore ESXi host configuration to a new
machine while the original ESXi host is active and managed by a vCenter. Before doing so please
remove the original ESXi host from vCenter and add it back after performing the recovery.

The third step is to Configure Local Datastores. Because the original ESXi server can become faulty or
the system hard disk drive and the datastore can be lost, the destination configuration may differ
from the original server.

The list shows the detected HDDs and their size. Here you can see the datastores already present on
the detected HDDs. If the datastore on HDDs matches with the datastore in the original configuration
(stored inside the ESXi configuration backup), its name appears in green. If the datastore is detected