Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Performing a BMR from a Physical Computer to a Virtual Machine (P2V)

This section describes the process of restoring a NetWorker backup of a physical computer to a virtual machine (P2V).

1. Perform a backup of the physical computer.
2. On the computer that runs the hypervisor, create a target virtual machine (VM).
   1. Configure the VM to use a virtual network adapter.
   2. On the VM configuration page:
      1. Select the LSI Logic SAS SCSI controller.
      2. Configure the disks on the VM to match the original physical computer configuration.
      3. Create the same number of physical disks.

         Extra disks can be added after the P2V recovery.

   3. Consider the following:
      • The SCSI disk numbers must match the original disk numbers.
      • The VM disk sizes must match, or exceed, the original disk sizes.

   For VMware hypervisors, use a Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) templates as the guest operating system when you create the VM.

3. On the VM, start the WinPE ISO which starts the BMR wizard.
4. On the VM, use the BMR wizard to configure the hostname and network configuration:
   1. On the Welcome screen:
      1. Populate the The current date and The current time fields with correct date and time as per the time zone value in the time zone field. For instance, if the correct date and time is January 17, 2022 1:00:00 AM as per the (UTC-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada) time zone in the wizard, set the same in the date and time fields in the wizard.
      2. Once date and time fields are verified, click Next.
   2. On the Select NetWorker Server screen, specify the name of the physical computer as the NetWorker client.
   3. On the Save Sets to Restore screen, review the selected items to restore, and then click Next.
   4. On the Select Bare Metal Recovery Backup screen, select the backup to restore. Backups are listed in chronological order with the most recent backup first.
   5. On the Summary screen, if the save set was created with NetWorker 8.1 or earlier, select the Restore physical computer to virtual machine (P2V) checkbox.

      If the Restore physical computer to virtual machine (P2V) checkbox is not marked, the VM might not start successfully after the restore is complete.

   6. To start the restore, select Restore.
5. Restart the VM when the P2V BMR is complete.