Virtual Environment Protection Flashcards
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Which Acronis Cyber Protect feature can automatically test VM recoverability by performing a trial restore and booting the VM in an isolated network?
Answer: Acronis Backup Validation with boot test
Acronis can automatically boot a recovered VM in an isolated sandbox environment to verify it starts correctly without affecting the production network.
A VMware administrator notices that VM backup times have increased significantly. CBT is enabled. What is the most likely cause?
Answer: CBT data has become corrupted or stale, causing Acronis to read entire disks
Corrupted or stale CBT bitmaps force Acronis to fall back to a full disk scan, dramatically increasing backup duration.
When configuring Acronis to protect VMs in a VMware vSphere environment, which permission level must the Acronis service account have at minimum?
Answer: A custom role with specific vSphere privileges required for VADP operations
Acronis requires a custom vSphere role with specific VADP-related privileges (snapshot management, datastore access, etc.) — full administrator is not required but a read-only role is insufficient.
Which Acronis backup scheme is most appropriate for a VMware environment where RPO must be under 15 minutes throughout the day?
Answer: Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Acronis CDP continuously captures changed blocks and can achieve RPOs of seconds to minutes, far below the 15-minute threshold.
An Acronis backup of a VM using the SAN transport mode fails because the backup appliance cannot see the LUN. What should be verified?
Answer: The Acronis VA's HBA zoning and LUN masking to ensure it has SAN access to the datastore
SAN transport requires the Acronis VA's host bus adapter to be zoned and masked to the same LUNs as the ESXi hosts storing the VM's VMDKs.
What does Acronis 'retention rules' control in the context of VMware VM backup plans?
Answer: How many recovery points or how many days of backups are kept before older ones are deleted
Retention rules define the maximum number of recovery points or the maximum age of backup data; older recovery points are automatically purged to free storage.
In a stretched VMware cluster across two data centers, which Acronis deployment best ensures that a VM backup at Site A is not bottlenecked by WAN bandwidth?
Answer: Deploy an Acronis VA at each site so backups are stored locally, with optional replication to the other site
A local Acronis VA at each site ensures backup traffic stays on the LAN, while replication of completed backups to the remote site or cloud provides offsite copies without impacting production WAN.