To reduce hardware requirements, there is often a need to migrate physical machines to virtual ones. To perform a physical to virtual migration (P2V), you need to boot your physical machine from Acronis bootable Media, create a full backup and then restore it to a virtual machine.
To perform a P2V migration the following steps are to be made:
Create Acronis Bootable Media. Download the Acronis Bootable Media Builder of Acronis vmProtect 7 from the My products & Downloads section of your account at the Acronis website. Install it.
Boot the physical machine that you need to migrate to virtual from Acronis Bootable Media.
Create a full backup of the physical machine.
Run Acronis vmProtect 7 web console, connect to the Acronis Agent and click Restore on the Actions tab.
Select the created backup and choose the target ESX(i) host where to restore the backup.