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Quick Start Guide
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Table of contents
1 About Acronis Cyber Appliance 3
1.1 Acronis Cyber Appliance exterior 3
2 Safety instructions 5
3 Installing Acronis Cyber Appliance 6
3.1 Unpacking Acronis Cyber Appliance 6
3.2 Mounting Acronis Cyber Appliance into rack 6
3.3 Connecting cables to Acronis Cyber Appliance 9
3.4 Configuring Acronis Cyber Appliance 11
3.4.1 Creating a new cluster 11
3.4.2 Joining the existing cluster 14
3.4.3 Configuring the cluster by using the admin panel 17
4 Managing licenses 18
4.1 Installing license keys 19
4.2 Installing SPLA licenses 20
5 Managing updates 21
6 Configuring Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Acronis Cyber Protect 23
6.1 Deploying the compute cluster 23
6.2 Deploying the Acronis Cyber Protect “All-in-One” Appliance virtual machine 23
6.2.1 Downloading the Acronis Cyber Protect “All-in-One” Appliance 23
6.2.2 Deploying the Acronis Cyber Protect “All-in-One” Appliance 24
6.3 Creating backup storage 26
6.4 Performing backup operations 26
6.4.1 Adding machines to be backed up 26
6.4.2 Configuring a protection plan 26
7 Getting technical support 29
8 Appendix: Specifications 30
8.1 Technical specifications 30
8.1.1 Power supply specifications 30
8.2 Environmental specifications 31
8.2.1 Air quality requirements 31
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1 About Acronis Cyber Appliance
Acronis Cyber Appliance provides a 5-node Acronis Cyber Infrastructure cluster in a 19-inch 3U
rackmount server chassis. Acronis Cyber Appliance deploys into a universal and easy-to-use
software-defined infrastructure solution that combines virtualization and storage. Powered by
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, it allows you to create and manage virtual machines, and offers object,
block, and file storage, including a local repository for cloud backups. You can also deploy Acronis
Cyber Protect in the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure compute cluster, and have both the storage and
the backup server running on Acronis Cyber Appliance.
Acronis Cyber Appliance comes in several models, which vary by storage capacity:
Model Raw storage, TB Usable storage1, TB
Capacity Performance
15031 60 31 18
15062 120 62 36
15078 150 78 45
15093 180 93 54
15108 210 108 60
15124 240 124 69
1With the recommended redundancy scheme. Erasure coding 3+2 is recommended for capacity;
replication=3 is recommended for performance.
1.1 Acronis Cyber Appliance exterior
Acronis Cyber Appliance consists of five identical nodes. On the front of the appliance, under the
front bezel are the power/reset buttons, a power LED of each node, as well as the main power
switch. The front panel also provides access to the disks for each node: three per node, ordered left
to right, that is, the leftmost three disks are for node #1, the next three are for node #2, etc.
On the back of Acronis Cyber Appliance are two power sockets and a number of connectivity
options.
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Each node has its own network, IPMI, USB, and VGA ports.
The IPMI, USB, and VGA ports are only needed for advanced diagnostics. IPMI allows accessing the
nodes over the network for out-of-band management via a remote console. The default IPMI
password to access the management node via SSH is Acronis!Infra%30 (it changes to a user-
specified password during deployment). The USB and VGA ports allow you to connect a keyboard
and a monitor to a node if the network is unavailable.
Day-to-day management of Acronis Cyber Appliance is done over the network through the admin
panel, as described later in the guide.
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2 Safety instructions
Warning!
Acronis Cyber Appliance may only be repaired by a certified service technician. You may only
perform troubleshooting as authorized by the support team. Damage due to unauthorized repairs
is not covered by the warranty.
If you need to reset a node to the factory default settings, contact the support, as described in
"Getting technical support" (p. 29).
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3 Installing Acronis Cyber Appliance
Before installing Acronis Cyber Appliance, make sure you have the following:
l3U of server rack space in a standard 19-inch cabinet
lAt least five free 1/10 GbE ports in a network switch (10 GbE recommended)
lAt least five RJ45-to-RJ45 patch cables to connect the appliance to the switch
lTwo power sockets
If you want to set up network bonding, you will additionally need (a) five free 1/10 GbE ports in a
network switch (10 GbE recommended) and (b) five RJ45-to-RJ45 patch cables to connect the
appliance to the switch.
If you want to have access to the nodes from a remote console for out-of-band management, you
will additionally need (a) six free 1 GbE ports in a network switch and (b) six RJ45-to-RJ45 patch
cables to connect the appliance to the switch.
To install Acronis Cyber Appliance, perform the following steps:
1. Unpack Acronis Cyber Appliance.
2. Mount the appliance into a rack.
3. Connect cables to the appliance.
4. Configure Acronis Cyber Appliance by using the wizard.
5. Log in to the admin panel and install a license.
6. Set up the desired workloads in the admin panel.
Steps one through five are described in the following sections. For more information about step six,
refer to the Administrator Guide.
3.1 Unpacking Acronis Cyber Appliance
Inspect the packaging contents for damage before mounting the appliance and connecting power.
Before continuing, make sure the following items are present in the packaging: the appliance
chassis, mounting rails, two power cables, and this quick start guide.
3.2 Mounting Acronis Cyber Appliance into rack
The appliance comes with a set of server rails. Follow the steps below to install the rail and mount
Acronis Cyber Appliance into the rack.
1. Separate the inner and outer rails.
Separate the inner rail from the outer rail by sliding the inner rail forward until the locking tab is
visible, as per the illustration below. Depress the tab and separate the inner rail from the outer
rail by sliding the two apart.
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2. Attach the inner rail to the appliance.
Align the rectangular cutouts on the inner rail to the pre-formed bayonets on the side of the
chassis. Secure the inner rail with a screw from the standard screw kit after all the bayonets go
through the cutouts and properly engage.
3. Install the outer rail into the rack.
When selecting the location, note that the rails are in the middle of the appliance. Make sure that
you install the outer rails with 1U clearance above and below.
Make sure that the safety lock is unlocked before mounting the brackets.
Insert the locating pins into the upper and lower square holes on the rail from the back of rail.
Push the safety lock forward to secure the bracket.
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4. Mount the chassis into the cabinet.
Important
Two people are required to perform this step.
Insert the inner rail into the outer rail as shown in the figure.
Important
Make sure that the ball retainer is fully open before installing the chassis. Otherwise, you risk
damaging the chassis!
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3.3 Connecting cables to Acronis Cyber Appliance
Note
For more details on configuring the network infrastructure, refer to the Administrator Guide.
To prepare Acronis Cyber Appliance for configuration, do the following:
1. Connect the appliance to the electrical outlets by using the supplied power cables.
2. On every node, connect any SFP+ or RJ45 network port (1 on the diagram) to a switch (2 on the
diagram) with access to a dedicated subnet for your infrastructure. Then, connect the admin
laptop (3 on the diagram) to the same switch. The diagram below shows an example of the cable
connection.
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Important
The nodes have preconfigured IP addresses: 10.20.20.11 to 10.20.20.15.
3. (Optional) Connect the out-of-band management network interfaces of each node and the
chassis (1 on the diagram) to a switch with access to the IPMI subnet for your appliance (2 on the
diagram). The nodes have preconfigured IPMI IP addresses: 10.20.30.11 to 10.20.30.15. The
chassis has the preconfigured IPMI IP address 10.20.30.10. Connect the admin laptop (3 on the
diagram) to the same switch.
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