Feature Request - Convert To Virtual DISK

Hi,

Please could I request a feature for Backup and Recovery 10.

We have a system where our customers backup using Acronis each night to a NAS drive and then should there server fail we would take the image, convert it to a VMDK file and boot the vmdk file using vmware server.

This works great in True Image Server in that all you need to do is go to tools/convert to virtual disk/add the image/choose the output type and location and off it goes. You can then take the converted vmdk file, add it as a virtual hard drive in vmware and boot the machine.

This doesn't work as well in B&R10, I know the idea is now that you can convert the image into a virtual machine but you then have to import that virtual machine into vmware which is an extra step and takes extra time. I know you can just browse to the location where you have chosen to create the virtual machine and pick the vmdk files up from there but if you have more than one hard drive the vmdk files are not names in a way where you can distinguish which is hard drive 1/2 etc plus the 1 time I did try this the machine wouldn't boot.

I have now found that the best way in B&R10 to convert to virtual disk is using the command line tool trueimagecmd but this has been problematic when converting Dynamic disks in that it would convert disk 1 which was a basic disk fine, then when it got to disk 2 which was a dynamic disk it finished almost instantly and had just created a blank vmdk file. There was definately no problem with the image because I could mount the tib file and browse the files on the dynamic disk fine, just not convert the disk to a vmdk file using the command line.

If you could just re-add the feature that True Image had so you can just convert the disks directly that would be great.

I would carry on using True Image if I could but some of our systems now run 2008 R2 which it doesn't support plus it doesn't support dynamic disks.

Thanks,
Danny