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Acronis Cyber Backup for VMware
Best Cyber Backup Solution to Secure Your VMware vSphere Environment

Optimized and Complete Backup and Recovery
RTOs of 15 Seconds or Less
Lower the Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) of your vSphere Virtual Machines (VMs) and ESX(i) hosts to 15 seconds or less. Recover to bare metal, no matter the same or dissimilar hardware from different vendors
Improve Your TCO and Scale Protection
Acronis Backup can reduce your TCO with data protection management, supporting up to 2,000 devices per management server and upholding enterprise workloads, including Oracle, Clustered Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange
Streamline Data Protection
Complete disk-imaging backup protects your entire vSphere environment and eliminates the time on reinstalling operating systems and applications during a VM or host failure
Most Innovative Data Protection
Enjoy innovative protection from ransomware attacks with Active Protection, which proactively defends all the data on vSphere environment
Achieve Optimum Flexibility in Data Protection
Store your vSphere VM backups in up to five locations, including local disks, NAS, SAN, tape, as well as proven and secure Acronis Cloud Storage

Achieve Optimum Flexibility in Data Protection
Mitigate risks by backing up and migrating your vSphere hosts and virtual machines between different platforms, including the cloud, so you can evolve your IT infrastructure and business easily.
Store your backups in up to five different locations, both locally and in the cloud. Combination of variety of storage types (local disks, attached storage, tape, network storage, centralized deduplicated disk storage, and cloud locations) minimize your costs and provide multiple recovery options during disaster.
Fulfill your regulatory requirements and disaster recovery needs by storing backups on local or central tape devices with support for media management, tape rotation, and retention rules.
Complete recovery of your vSphere VMs and control the location of your backed-up data with secure and reliable Acronis Cloud Data Centers.
Minimize the impact of your backup process on your infrastructure by offloading VMware VM snapshots to NetApp SAN storage.
RTOs of 15 Seconds or Less
Lower RTOs by restoring folders, files, databases, documents, mailboxes, and individual emails directly from your VM backup. No third-party tools or extra steps required.
Initiate your backup as a vSphere VM directly from backup storage to achieve RTOs of 15 seconds or less with no data movement required.
Accelerate the recovery of vSphere VMs by restoring only the necessary data blocks to revert the VM to the original state.
Back up your ESX(i) host so you can restore the entire host (not just VMs) to the same or dissimilar hardware, to avoid hypervisor systems reconfiguration during a recovery.
You can reduce RTOs of remote vSphere VMs by accessing bootable media and restoring bare-metal servers remotely via wide-area networks (WAN).
Customize the bootable media with scripting to automate and orchestrate recovery.
Maintain copies on a secondary site to allow rapid failover and failback operations. You can also improve network performance with built-in WAN optimization.
Ensure a successful recovery of your vSphere VM by validating backup content with checksum, validating recoverability by automatically running the backup as a VM, and performing service availability checks with pre-defined and custom scripts.
Improve Your TCO and Scale Protection
Reduce your workload with a easy-to-use, web-based management console which accessible from any device, including tablets.
Protect all the data on your vSphere VMs with Acronis secure and reliable agentless backup.
Customizable dashboards provide quick insights into your infrastructure to reduce remediation time and resolve issues immediately.
Manage the volume of growing data across your company easily with global deduplication and centralized vaults.
Reduce production machine loads by performing select activities — such as backup staging (moving), replication (copying), validation, and retention (cleanup) — on a different system.
Increase resiliency and flexibility with regular, customizable reports that focus on the exceptions in your infrastructure.
Manage, delegate, and establish roles for multiple administrators to safeguard remote offices, branch offices, and departments.
Streamline Data Protection
Protect your business data by backing up images of your entire vSphere VM, files, or data and instant recover a complete image or selected files, folders, items, and applications.
Smart and aggregated alerts reduce the time to react and resolve issues, thus eliminating the need to sort and filter multiple notifications about the same issue.
Significantly reduce backup time, network usage, and storage requirements with seamless integration with VMware Changed-Block Tracking (CBT).
Most Innovative Data Protection
Protect your users from ransomware attacks with technology that actively detects, blocks, and reverses suspicious changes to data, including backup files and backup agents.
Maintain the integrity of backups by storing backup file checksum certificates in the blockchain database and detect unauthorized changes to your backups before you recover.
Verify the authenticity of your files by digitally capturing electronic signatures on a backed-up document and generating unique certificates that contain images of the signatures, timestamps, and other information.
Supported Systems
VMware vSphere
- VMware vSphere ESX(i) 6.7 update 1, 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, including vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi)*
Microsoft Windows in Virtual Machines
- Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003/2003 R2*
- Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003/2003 R2
- Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010
- Windows Storage Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003
- Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP SP1 (x64), SP2 (x86, x64), SP3 (x86, x64)
Linux in Virtual Machines
- Linux with kernel from 2.6.9 to 4.15 and glibc 2.3.4 or later
- Various 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) Linux distributions including:
Virtualized Applications
- Oracle Database 12, 11
- Microsoft Exchange Online
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 – including cluster configurations
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2005 – including cluster configurations
- Microsoft SharePoint 2013, 2010 SP1, 2007 SP2, 3.0 SP2
On-Premise Management Console
- Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2*
- Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008
- Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010
- Windows Storage Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
- Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7
- Linux x86_64 with kernel from 2.6.18 to 4.15 and glibc 2.3.4 or later
Storage
- Local disks – SATA, SCSI, IDE, RAID
- Networked storage devices – SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC
- Removable media – ZIP, Rev, RDX, etc.
- External HDDs and SSDs – USB 3.0/2.0/1.1and IEEE1394 (Firewire)
- Tape drives, autoloaders, and libraries, including media management and barcode support
- Acronis Cloud Storage
File Systems
- FAT16/32
- NTFS
- HFS+ *
- ReFS *
- Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
- ReiserFS3 *
- ReiserFS4 *
- XFS *
- JFS *
- Linux SWAP
* Some limitations may apply.
Web browsers
- Google Chrome 29 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 23 or later
- Opera 16 or later
- Windows Internet Explorer 10 or later
- Microsoft Edge 25 or later
- Safari 8 or later (running in Apple OS X and iOS)
* Some limitations and licnese-specific restrictions may apply.
FAQ
Acronis Backup 12.5 (Available in Standard and Advanced editions) is the easiest and fastest backup solution for your data, no matter it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices.
Acronis Backup 12.5 comes with ransomware protection, enhanced backup validation, and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary.
With Acronis Backup 12.5, you can protect all your data with the supreme backup of physical Microsoft Windows and Linux servers; virtual VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, and Oracle VM Server; cloud Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, Microsoft Azure VMs, and Amazon EC2 instances; Oracle Databases; Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory applications; local and remote Microsoft Windows and Mac workstations and laptops; as well as iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.