Physical machine to virtual

This section describes recovery of a physical machine as a virtual machine by using the web interface. This operation can be performed if at least one Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V is installed and registered.

Note  You cannot recover MacOS virtual machines to Hyper-V hosts, because Hyper-V does not support MacOS. You can recover MacOS virtual machines to a VMware host that is installed on Mac hardware.

For more information about P2V migration, refer to "Machine migration".

To recover a physical machine as a virtual machine

1. Select the backed-up machine.
2. Click Recovery.
3. Select a recovery point. Note that recovery points are filtered by location.

   If the machine is offline, the recovery points are not displayed. Do any of the following:

   • If the backup location is cloud or shared storage (i.e. other agents can access it), click Select machine, select a machine that is online, and then select a recovery point.
   • Select a recovery point on the Backup storage tab.
   • Recover the machine as described in "Recovering disks by using bootable media".
4. Click Recover > Entire machine.
5. In Recover to, select Virtual machine.
6. Click Target machine.
   1. Select the hypervisor (VMware ESXi or Hyper-V).

      At least one Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V must be installed.

   2. Select whether to recover to a new or existing machine. The new machine option is preferable as it does not require the disk configuration of the target machine to exactly match the disk configuration in the backup.
   3. Select the host and specify the new machine name, or select an existing target machine.
   4. Click OK.
7. [Optional] When recovering to a new machine, you can also do the following:
   • Click Datastore for ESXi or Path for Hyper-V, and then select the datastore (storage) for the virtual machine.
   • Click Disk mapping to select the datastore (storage), interface, and provisioning mode for each virtual disk. The mapping section also enables you to choose individual disks for recovery.
   • Click VM settings to change the memory size, the number of processors, and the network connections of the virtual machine.

   

8. [Optional] Enable Safe recovery to scan the backup for malware. If malware is detected, it will be marked in the backup and deleted right after the recovery process is completed.
9. Click Start recovery.
10. When recovering to an existing virtual machine, confirm that you want to overwrite the disks.

The recovery progress is shown on the Activities tab.