Windows prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met to perform an item level recovery for Windows clients.

Windows prerequisite

Description

CIFS (Samba) access

Ensure that the Samba service is enabled. Turn on the Samba service by selecting Settings > System, Updates, and Licensing > Support Toolbox > Samba On/Off.

iSCSI access for Windows 2003

To connect to the iSCSI LUN exposed by the Unitrends system, an iSCSI initiator must be used. For Windows 2003, the initiator package must be downloaded and installed on the restore target machine. Download the installation file from:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18986

Disk configuration

VMware FLR is supported on Windows systems configured with MBR partitions only. GPT partitions are not supported. FLR can be performed for dynamic disks with the following limitations:

     FLR on dynamic disks can be performed only with iSCSI. FLR on dynamic disks using a CIFS share is not supported.

     If the dynamic volumes in the backup are still in use on the original server, then the disks exported by FLR must be attached to a different server for the recovery.