Selecting the right Acronis product - with P2V and V2P support
We wanted to test a current Acronis product that allows to restore a hard drive backup to a virtual drive or machine. Please suggest, WHAT TRIAL VERSION OF WHICH PRODUCT we need to download from your site to be able to test this particular function? We are interested in Workstation class of products, but can look at Server products too, if that feature is currently not offered for Workstations.
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P2V is available in any trial version of ABR 10 using 'convert to VM' feature during setting up a backup. V2P generally* requires universal restore that is not included in trial version by default but you can ask for it.
*If it's a bog-standard machine with IDE drives with the same CPU family, simply recovering th VM's backup on the physical machine using bootable media may work.
Thanks!
What VM types are supported for recovery, i.e. VMWare, etc? What Acronis product and menu option to use for a VM recovery to a physical machine - I can't find it anywhere?
Should I make a backup of a VM virtual drive file after starting Acronis on a host PC? Or Acronis must start inside the VM to make its drive backup that can later be restored from a bootable ISO to another physical machine?
What Acronis product allows to restore a VM backup over LAN to another physical machine? Should that remote PC be started from another drive?
What Acronis product and menu option to use for a VM recovery to a physical machine - I can't find it anywhere?
Product - any which "Workstation/Server SBS edition/Server" tag matches (not less than) that of OS on the machine to be recovered, WITH universal restore. Menu option is, well, 'recover' -- boot from bootable media, then select 'universal restore' . (http://kb.acronis.com/content/1786 , the second part)
Should I make a backup of a VM virtual drive file after starting Acronis on a host PC? Or Acronis must start inside the VM to make its drive backup that can later be restored from a bootable ISO to another physical machine?
Either install it within VM or use Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition and install it on the host. But not a backup of virtual disk file.
What Acronis product allows to restore a VM backup over LAN to another physical machine? Should that remote PC be started from another drive?
If I understood it right, if the physical machine's network card is recognized by bootable media, it can use archive located on shared folders in the network.
Thank a lot! What do you mean under " tag matches (not less than) that of OS on the machine to be recovered"? What tag?
Yes, a backup archive can be located on a LAN machine. But is it possible to restore a VM backup to a remote LAN machine's drive? Should it be the second drive of that machine, from which it didn't boot before the restore? Or it can be a boot drive, from which the remote machine booted?
There is B&R workstation, B&R Server and B&R Server SBS edition. A B&R Workstation media, for example, will not apply UR to the image of Server opearating system. I'm not sure if B&R Server SBS edition will recover in this way an image of Server (not SBS Server) OS. This is what I mean by 'tag'
But is it possible to restore a VM backup to a remote LAN machine's drive?
No. To restore image to the disk you need agent instaled on the machine with this disk, and restoring system with universal restore is an image resotore, you can't just restore it as files to network share. You can either boot from media, or install B&R and invoke restore operation with reboot from windows.