Acronis Cloud Manager 5.1 for Azure and Hyper-V

Acronis International GmbH announced Cloud Manager 5.1 for Azure and Hyper-V.

This version enhances the management and replication of Azure VMs through the Web Management Console, enabling access to VM lifecycle management and administration capabilities.

The latest enhancements provide effortless scalability for distributed or large environments – a critical consideration given today’s remote workforce – while supporting operations with Hyper-V VMs, virtual switches, and datastores. This release also makes security and UI improvements to the Web Console, making it more effective in mitigating and reducing cyber risks.

“Acronis’ ultimate goal is to deliver easy-to-use and complete cyber protection for any workload available on the market,” explained Yury Averkiev, VP, product management. “This release is yet another step forward in this direction, where we continue to improve our support for Microsoft Azure.“

Using company’s Cloud Manager’s Web Console to manage Azure VMs enables users to centrally create, provision, configure, manage, or delete Microsoft Azure VMs across their environment. The enhanced Web Console also ensures users can replicate or migrate Azure VMs and manage operations with Microsoft Azure subscriptions.

Additional enhancements in Version 5.1 include:

• Improvements to the Web portal’s GUI

• Improved security of the Web portal initialization script

• Added SQL server account password validity check during the Web portal setup

• Added https support and certificate selection for Web portal

• Setting static MAC addresses

• Expanding compacting VHD operations to ensure they work properly

• Converting VHD on Windows Server 2012 R2

“As a result of the Acronis Cloud Manager deployment, the main problems of the Windows administration team have been resolved. Administrators got a single tool for managing virtual infrastructure with a role-based model, monitoring, and backup of VMs,” said Vladislav Almazov, director, IT support, Lamoda Group (part of Global Fashion Group). “Acronis Cloud Manager is the most affordable solution with the functionality we need. During the operation of the product, we get tech support from the Acronis partner engineers, which helps to solve emerging problems. We provide our suggestions for improving the product, and they are considered in the development of the next versions.”

Cloud Manager can be downloaded.

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Acronis Cloud Manager 5.1 for Azure what’s new