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Acronis Backup Advanced Design: Centralized vs Distributed

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Hello,

we are in alpha stage of implementing Acronis as Enterprise backup system. It's a big company with a number of sites in Europe and North America. I am considering 2 types of deployment: centralised and distributed and trying to identify the pros and cons of both. These are my findings, please correct or add info as you find necessary.

CENTRAL (1 AMS, dedicated SQL server, ASN and storage local to sites)

CONS: intra-site replication / all jobs in one place / no access control on backup jobs

PROS: minor investment (one less server per site)

 

DISTRIBUTED: (1 AMS/ASN per site)

CONS: more servers needed

PROS: Acronis traffic is only local / can install SQL directly on the management server

 

Is this correct? Am I missing something important? How heavy can Acronis traffic (AMS <-> Acronis clients) be?

Thanks

Luka

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Hello,

Please also note that the current version of Acronis Management Server scales only to about 1000 machines and there are special considerations starting from 200 (you want to have no more than 200 machines per backup policy).

If you have a large number of agents, I would suggest a distributed environment, especially considering that the actual system requirements for the server aren't that high. For example, you could use VM in each environment to run the AMS.

Thank you.