Supported integrated bare metal recovery scenarios

The supported integrated bare metal recovery scenarios are listed below. You can perform all of the recovery scenarios using the instructions provided in Performing the integrated bare metal recovery.

     Restore to same physical hardware as the failed client. Supported for all operating systems listed in Supported operating systems.

     Restore a failed physical client to a virtual machine (Hyper-V/VMware). Supported for all operating systems listed in Supported operating systems. Supported on VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0 and higher and all versions of Hyper-V.

     Restore a failed virtual client to a virtual machine. Supported for all operating systems listed in Supported operating systems. Supported on VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0 and higher and all versions of Hyper-V.

     Restore a failed virtual client to a physical machine. Supported for Windows 7/ Server 2008 R2 and higher.

Note about Windows virtual machines: To restore a failed virtual client using the integrated bare metal recovery feature, you must have protected the client using agent backups. If you have protected the client with VM backups, you can use the procedures for restoring an entire VM from a backup. For details, see Restoring Hyper-V virtual machines and Restoring the entire virtual machine (VMware).

     Restore a failed physical client to dissimilar hardware. Supported for Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher.

     Restore a failed physical client to dissimilar hardware with fewer disks. Supported for Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher.

     Restore a failed physical client to hardware with smaller or larger disks. Supported for all operating systems listed in Supported operating systems.

     Restore a failed client BIOS/MBR configuration to dissimilar BIOS/MBR configuration. Supported for Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher.

     Restore a failed client UEFI/GPT configuration to dissimilar UEFI/GPT configuration. Supported for Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher.

     Restore multi-boot configured BIOS servers.