BMR physical to virtual machine creation benefits and use cases
Client to VM creation process provides following major benefits and use-cases.
Can be used as instant temporary DR mechanism.
Lowers OPEX by leveraging virtual machines for recovery.
Provides quick recovery of primary domain clients at DR domain by enabling NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR). Refer NetBackup Administrator's Guides for more details on enabling Auto Image Replication.
Reduces Recovery Time Objective (RTO) with easy-to-use VM conversion wizard as well as not requiring any system recovery pre-requisites preparation.
Can be used to do compliance and fire-drill testing.
Supports create VM from FULL, INCREMENTAL, and synthetic backup image.
Supports create VM from Point-In-Time backup image.
Provides VM creation flexibility by providing different preferences like:
System-only restore: Provides option to create VM with OS volumes only.
Overwrite existing VM: Any existing VM with the same name can be automatically overwritten.
Auto boot VM after creation: When selected, VM creation process automatically boots VM, post creation.
Flexibility to map individual virtual disk to required virtualization storage entity.
Network stripping: Option to remove original client network interfaces and IP configuration in VM.
Provides option to create VM with only selected disks.
Provides a single command-line facility to trigger client VM creation.
Note:
The incremental data restore is not currently supported, however, fresh VM creation from an incremental backup is possible.