B&R10 Restore to VM

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I must be missing something.
We have B&R10 for Windows Server - standalone, and also Advanced Server Virtual.
I want to backup one of our non-virtual servers while it's off, convert it to a VM, and power it on in our virtual (ESX) environment.
So, I restored the backup to VM, then I import those files vmx and vmdk into the datastore and try to import to a new VM into inventory and it does, but says 'invalid' next to it.
Acronis, please tell me the best way to do this.

Tue, 12/08/2009 - 22:00
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Hi Jeff,

I'm sure I did a test some time ago and it worked! I converted a non-virtual server to work with ESXi. What I did was copy the converted image to the datastore and then setup a new VM, then pointed the hard drive to the image file.

That then booted up fine... I did kill it tho, tried to format the system and recover again.... this did not go to plan as the VM crashed and was 100% non-functional after that. Had to delete the VM. :-P

Well, I hope that has helped.

Ross

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 17:26
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I did some testing and what appears to happen is that the Acronis conversion is a VM Workstation. I used the VMWare converter which made necessary changes and imported it into my virtual environment. And that worked fine. What I don't understand is why Acronis would not have this feature already.

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 15:18