Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 can back up and recover virtual machines running in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. Backup and recovery become available by installing Agent for Linux or Agent for Windows into the guest systems. This means that Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 will treat the virtual machines as physical ones and provide the full scope of functionality it provides for physical machines. This also means that operations are not possible on the machines that are powered off.
Using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server, you can:
In addition, you can directly manage each individual machine by connecting Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console to it.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 provides several migration methods for you to easily migrate physical machines to the RHEV environment. The methods differ in complexity and flexibility. They cover all possible scenarios of migration. These methods can also be used to migrate a virtual machine from a different virtualization platform to the RHEV platform.
Licensing
You need a license for each host running at least one machine that needs backing up. Taking into account that machines migrate within a cluster, you need one license for each clustered host. An Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition license enables backing up an unlimited number of virtual machines which run on the same host and an unlimited number of migrations to that host. Using a trial license key, you can back up the hosted machines during a limited time period and perform 3 migrations to the host.
Supported versions of RHEV
Supported guest OS
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 supports all the virtualized guest operating systems supported by RHEV.