Agent for Hyper-V enables you to back up and recover virtual machines from a Hyper-V host without installing agents on the virtual machines.
Preparation
Licenses. Make sure that you have a sufficient number of licenses for Virtual Edition. You need one license per Hyper-V host. If you have a Hyper-V cluster (also called a failover cluster), we recommend obtaining licenses for each node of the cluster.
Management server. We recommend installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server and importing the licenses. If you have a Hyper-V cluster, installing the management server will enable you to back up clustered virtual machines whatever node they are running on.
Installation
Install the agent on the Hyper-V host. In a Hyper-V cluster, install the agent on each node of the cluster.
When installing the agent, provide the license key, either manually, or by specifying the management server or the license server.
If prompted for the Acronis Managed Machine Service (agent) account, specify an account of a domain user who has administrative privileges on all nodes of your Hyper-V cluster. With this account the agent will be able to access virtual machines on any of the nodes. Alternatively, you can choose to create a new account for the agent. Then, when creating centralized backup plans or recovery tasks, you will need to specify credentials for the domain account with the necessary privileges.
If you installed the management server, choose to register the agent on it during installation.