2. Creating Acronis Cyber Infrastructure virtual machine

First, you need to create a VM with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. Do the following:

  1. On the Dashboard, click Create a resource.

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  2. On the Home > New pane, find and click Acronis Backup Gateway in the Azure Marketplace.

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  3. On the Home > New > Acronis Backup Gateway pane, click Create.

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    The VM creation wizard will open.

  4. On the Basics pane, specify a user name and password for the VM’s admin account, set the public access policies, specify a password for the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure web panel, select a subscription type, resource group, and location. Click OK.

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  5. On the Gateway settings pane:

    1. In Virtual machine size, the recommended VM size, Standard A4 v2, should be selected by default.

    2. In Storage account, give a name to the account, and then click OK.

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    3. In Storage account container, specify a name.

    4. In Public IP address, select Static in Assignment, and then click OK.

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    5. In DNS prefix, specify a DNS prefix for your Backup Gateway, for example, backupgateway.

    The Backup Gateway will be registered in Acronis Backup Cloud under the static public IP address and DNS name.

    Note

    The public IP address and DNS name cannot be changed later.

    Having set the required options, click OK.

  6. On the Acronis Backup Cloud settings pane, provide the credentials of your partner account in Acronis Backup Cloud. The cloud management portal URL, https://cloud.acronis.com, should be specified by default. Click OK.

    Important

    Make sure that two-factor authentication (2FA) is disabled for your partner account. You can also disable it for a specific user within a 2FA-enabled tenant, as described in Acronis Cyber Cloud documentation, and specify the user credentials.

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  7. On the Summary pane, make sure all the options are set correctly, wait until validation passes, and then click OK.

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  8. On the Create pane, read the terms of use and privacy policy, and then click Create.

After the VM is running, log in to the Acronis Cyber Cloud admin panel and check that the new Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is shown in the Locations section (for more details, refer to the Acronis Cyber Cloud documentation. Finally, perform a test backup to the Azure cloud to make sure that everything is working correctly.