Acronis vmProtect 8 Update 1

Dear Acronis Customers,
We are glad to announce that we have launched Acronis vmProtect 8 Update 1 which contains various fixes and useful changes.
The update is released in the following websites and languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Russian. This update is free for all customers who have Acronis vmProtect 8 license. You can get the update from this page.
The build number is 8184.
Here's a short list of changes (the full list of release notes is available here)
Installation notes
Before installation of Acronis vmProtect 8 Update 1, please uninstall Acronis vmProtect 8 Beta. Although updating from the Beta version is technically supported, it is not recommended. You can safely upgrade from Acronis vmProtect 6 or Acronis vmProtect 7 or Acronis vmProtect 8 RTM to Acronis vmProtect 8 Update 1.
During the upgrade from the 6/7th version to the 8th version of Acronis vmProtect, the Restore/Validate/Exchange Restore tasks will be removed due to architectural changes. The backup tasks will be properly upgraded.
Installation of Acronis vmProtect Windows Agent onto a machine that has Acronis Backup and Recovery 11/11.5 already installed is supported starting from build #32308 of Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5. Please make sure you update Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 prior to installation of Acronis vmProtect Windows Agent.
List of changes/fixes (in comparison with Acronis vmProtect 8)
- Changes:
- Enabled hot-add functionality for vSphere 5.0+ environments in cases where vSphere Essentials or lesser VMware license is used. Now, LAN-free backup/replication is available for all types of vSphere licenses (5.0+) when using Virtual Appliance-based installation of Acronis vmProtect.
- Virtual Appliance now runs third-party custom VMware tools which support guest OS operations, i.e. you can shutdown/reset/reboot/power off the Virtual Appliance through VMware tools scripts which didn’t work before. There is no longer a warning about non-updated VMware tools in vSphere client.
- The warning about missing/outdated VMware tools has been moved to information trace, so now there will be no warning in the log file upon backup or replication of a VM without VMware tools.
- The 60 re-try limit has been removed and you can now adjust the number of retries up to 100,000 (Backup Options->Error Handling).
- Added information about how many licenses are required for backup/replication of selected set of VMs to the backup and the replication wizards if there are insufficient licenses.
- Added support for installation of Acronis vmProtect Windows Agent onto UEFI-based systems. In fact, this support is already present in the RTM build of Acronis vmProtect 8 and has been thoroughly tested by our QA team. Therefore, we can now support of this type of installation.
- Added the ability to backup replica VMs. The “Show replicas” option is added to the 1st step of the backup wizard.
- Common fixes:
- Fixed compatibility issue with Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5. Now, you can install Acronis vmProtect Windows Agent onto a machine which has Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 (build 32308+) already installed.
- Added support for ESXi 5.1 for ESXi configuration backup functionality. Now, you can backup ESXi 5.1 configuration.
- Significantly improved archive browsing algorithm (added caching mechanism). Now, loading the list of available recovery points in View->Recovery Points or in restore/failback wizards is up to 20 times faster than before.
- Fixed the incorrect sorting of recovery points which occurred when recovery points were created by the 7th or 8th versions of Acronis vmProtect within the same archive. (Previously, the old recovery points were on top instead of the new ones.)
- Backup/restore/validation
- Fixed the backup to Acronis Online Backup storage failure which would occurred when there was more than 1 tasks backing up into the same account. This failure caused a conflict and the archives could not be created properly. In this scenario, the backup task started first could hang.
- Fixed the inability to back up into different Acronis Online Backup subscriptions under the same account when using 2 or more Acronis vmProtect Virtual Appliances with different activated subscriptions. Previously, backups from all Virtual Appliances were backing up into 1 subscription despite the fact that there were 2 or more subscriptions activated under one Acronis Online Backup account.
- Fixed the inability to back up all VMs from a selected ESX(i) host. This would occur, if the entire host was selected for backup in the backup wizard and the host contained VM templates. In this scenario, the backup could fail with “Instances list is empty” or “Failed to find registered virtual machines” errors.
- Fixed wrong time-stamps (1 hour difference) in e-mail notifications sent after backup/replication for specific time zones.
- Fixed the backup failure which occurred when the backed up VM had an empty ‘instanceUuid’ property in vSphere (rare case).
- Fixed the recovery warning about a non-restored network adapter which occurred when the virtual network name where the backed up VM was connected to contained non-ASCII symbols. Now, such networks are properly restored.
- Fixed the incorrect virtual hardware version on the restored VM. Previously when you restored a VM which had virtual hardware version 7 onto a ESXi 5.1 host, the restored VM had virtual hardware version 8.
- Fixed the inability to back up an ESXi configuration which occurred in cases that had a datastore with non-ASCII symbols in its name.
- Replication
- Fixed the inability to create a new (or edit existing) replication task which occurred in cases when there was insufficient free space on datastore detected. Now, the replication wizard is not blocked despite the warning message and you can still create and run this task (even though it may fail due to insufficient free space).
- Exchange support
- Fixed very long e-mail browsing or mailbox recovery in cases when there were many Exchange transaction logs at the moment of the backup. Now, these logs are not rolled up and, therefore, do not affect the browsing/recovery speed.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager