About creating virtual machine from backup
NetBackup BMR supports direct virtual machine (VM) creation (Physical to Virtual) from FULL, SYNTHETIC, INCREMENTAL, and PIT (point-in-time) backups. This VM creation does not require BMR Boot server and Shared Resource Tree setup. For more information on platform support matrix, refer appendix section to See BMR Direct VM conversion support matrix.
This feature supports easy wizard-based or single CLI-based disaster recovery (DR) to virtual machine. VM creation is even possible at DR domain using NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) support. The feature aids a non-technical person to perform server level DR as the user need not create virtual machine layout or do dissimilar system recovery using BMR method. Run physical to virtual machine creation wizard or single command line to find the created client virtual machine and to boot it automatically.
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For information on support matrix See BMR Direct VM conversion support matrix. Currently, the deployment on Windows client having SFW-enabled or having EFI or GPT partitioning cannot be converted to VM using this client to VM conversion utility.