Back up directly to VMDK instead of TIB

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Hello.

My company is interested in doing a P2V migration of some production bare metal to virtual machines.

The issue is that currently, when we do a P2V for other purposes, it takes a long amount
of time to restore the image of the bare metal machine into a virtual machine.

The steps we take so far are:

1. Automatic Snapshot of the Production Server happens on Sunday to a File Server.
2. The Virtual machine is created manually within VMWare on Monday.
3. Inside the virtual machine, the disks are restored from a TIB file sitting on a file server using a bootdisk. This usually finishes by Tuesday.

The problem is that Step # 1 takes about 8 hours to complete and Step # 3 takes 14 hours to complete.

I'd lke to know if there is a way for Acronis to directly image straight to VMDK, rather than using a converter to convert from TIB to VMDK.

More to the point, I know it can be done in Windows, but is there a way to do it with Linux?

Thanks.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 23:26
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Bump!

The reason for this post is to determine if we can shorten the time it takes to produce a set of virtual machines from a physical server.

FYI, The version we're running is ABR 10 Server with Universal Restore on both our Linux and Windows servers. Maybe that would help?

Reading up in the man pages on the Linux side, I couldn't find anything that said "--convert" or "VMDK".

Anyone?

Tue, 01/18/2011 - 16:18