Local Storage on Acronis ESX Appliance
Hello Forum,
we back up two VMWare clusters with Acronis. An older one with vmProtect8 and a newer one with CyberBackup 12.5.
On the old one, we included an iSCSI drive as local storage directly on the appliance, which can easily be specified as the target.
Unfortunately, this does not work under 12.5. The local storage can be integrated on the appliance, but not selected as a target in the backup plan.
The item "Browse from this machine" is gray and cannot be selected.
For example, if I select drive D as the destination, the virtual machines back up to their own drive D - not the appliance's.
What options do I have to address the backup target via iSCSI or NFS for all virtual machines?
Thank you in advance for your support!

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Thank you for your quick response!
I figured out a way for accessing local storage on an appliance to work for me.
- Create the local storage on ApplianceXY
- Bind all virtual machines (the versions without agent) on Appliance XY / change assigend agent from automatic to manual
- Select the machine variant without installed agent within the backup job
With these settings it is possible to address the local storage on the ApplianceXY.
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TeamSheldon wrote:Thank you for your quick response!
I figured out a way for accessing local storage on an appliance to work for me.
- Create the local storage on ApplianceXY
- Bind all virtual machines (the versions without agent) on Appliance XY / change assigend agent from automatic to manual
- Select the machine variant without installed agent within the backup job
With these settings it is possible to address the local storage on the ApplianceXY.
Hello ! I am glad the issue is resolved.
Thanks for the updates and for sharing a workaround that worked for you. This will be helpful for the other users.
Cheers!
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