Acronis Cyber Protect (Universal Restore)
Acronis
Paid
Warm - seeded online, short cutover window
Agent
Mid estates
Workload P2V V2V V2C P2C
What it is good at
Universal Restore injects the right HAL and storage drivers so an image taken from physical hardware boots cleanly as a VM - the classic answer for awkward legacy servers.
Where it falls down
Per-workload cost, and the console is aimed at MSPs rather than large enterprise programmes.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Automatic driver / guest tools injection
- Encryption in flight
- Wave / batch orchestration
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Per-workload annual subscription
- Licence model
- Per-workload (server / workstation / VM host) annual subscription; perpetual available in some regions.
- How to license it
- Buy per-workload licences from Acronis or an MSP partner and register them in the Acronis console.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.acronis.com/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- Physical desktop / workstation
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Oracle VirtualBox
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Oracle VirtualBox
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)
- Physical server - Windows