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Acronis True Image Sicherung von VHD Dateien VM Ware Workstation

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Guten Tag,

wir haben auf einer Windows 8.1. Maschine, VM Ware Workstation mit 2 virtuellen Maschinen laufen.

Gesichert wird der Windows 8.1. PC mit Acronis True Image.

Meine Frage wäre, kann True Image die virtuellen Maschinen, welche Vollzeit im Betrieb sind vernünftig wegsichern oder gibt es da Konsistenzprobleme beim wegschreiben der VM?

Hat da jemand einen Tipp für mich?

Vielen Dank

Gruß

Roland

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Roland wrote:

Good day,
we have on a Windows 8.1. Machine, VM Ware workstation running 2 virtual machines.
is secured of Windows 8.1. PC with Acronis True Image.
My question would be, True Image, the virtual machines, which are full-time in the operating wegsichern reasonable or is there consistency problems wegschreiben the VM?
Has anyone a tip for me?
Thank you very much
greeting
Roland

Roland, welcome to these user forums.

I am not sure that I understand your question.  Are you wanting to backup your VMware workstation virtual machines from the host Windows 8.1 Operating System, or have you installed ATIH 2016 in the 2 Virtual Machines?

You may want to consider a different Acronis product that is designed to work with Virtual Machines - see the separate forum for: 

Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for virtualization (former Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition)

Discussions related to Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for VMware, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for Hyper-V, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for RHEV, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for Citrix XenServer, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 for Oracle.

In my own testing with VMWare workstation, running virtual Windows Operating Systems with Acronis True Image Home installed on each of those VM instances, Acronis backup and restore works just fine in the virtual environment.

However, just like a physical compter, if there are issues in the operating system (conflicts with antivirus, malware, third party applications, issues with the OS integrity or VSS), the VM's are just as susceptible to "active" backup problems.  In most cases, Acronis works just fine from within Windows though.  Alternatively, you can also take "offline" backups of the VM's by booting the VM to the Acronis recovery media and taking an image of the virtual hard drive while it is in an inactive state.  This is probably the best way to ensure backup integrity, but not a requirement - only a suggestion.

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If however, you are asking if it's OK to backup the physical hard drive where the actual VMware files reside and while the VM's are actively in use... I think that you may get mixed results.  Acronis is using VSS (Volume Shadow Service) so it should be able to take an exact snapshot of the VM files as they are at that exact point in time, but I believe VMWare is also loading information into memory where backups may miss that particular data.  As a result, I would follow VMWare's recommendation and make sure that the VM OS is not running when taking a backup of the original VM files on the Host Operating System physical hard drive.  

Best practices when backing up a VMware Workstation virtual machine (2006202)