Cross-platform recovery
You can recover a disk-level backup to a physical machine or to a virtual machine. For example, a disk-level backup is an Entire machine backup or a Disk/volumes backup that contains the system disk and the boot disk.
Cross-platform recovery (machine migration) is performed in the following cases:
- When you recover a backup of a physical machine to a virtual machine.
- When you recover a backup of a virtual machine to a physical machine.
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When you recover a backup of a virtual machine to a virtual machine on a different type of hypervisor.
If a virtual machine is backed up by a protection agent installed inside the guest operating system, the backup is treated as a physical machine backup.
The following tables summarize the available options for cross-platform recovery according to the backed-up workload.
Physical machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Microsoft Microsoft Azure virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | No |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | No |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | No |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | Yes |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | No |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | No |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | No |
| Nutanix virtual machine | No |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Nutanix virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Proxmox virtual machine
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | Yes |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | Yes |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | Yes* |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | Yes |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | Yes |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | Yes |
| Nutanix virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox virtual machine | Yes |
| Proxmox container | No |
Proxmox container
| Target workload | Supported |
|---|---|
| Physical machine | No |
| Broadcom (VMware) ESXi virtual machine | No |
| Microsoft Azure virtual machine | No |
| Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Server container | No |
| Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine | No |
| Scale Computing HyperCore virtual machine | No |
| RHV/oVirt virtual machine | No |
| Nutanix virtual machine | No |
| Proxmox virtual machine | No |
| Proxmox container | Yes |
The Secure Boot setting is not backed up. If Secure Boot is enabled on the original machine, the virtual machine recovered as a new machine will not boot. To start the recovered machine, disable Secure Boot in the VM console after recovery.
- * EFI-based machines are recovered as Generation 2 virtual machines.
- * You cannot recover macOS virtual machines to Hyper-V hosts because Hyper-V does not support macOS. You can recover macOS virtual machines to VMware hosts that are installed on Mac hardware.
Cross-platform recovery via bootable media
You can perform a cross-platform recovery by using bootable media.
We recommend that you use bootable media instead of the Cyber Protect console in the following cases:
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Performing a migration that is not natively supported.
For example, use bootable media to recover a physical machine or a non-Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine as a Virtuozzo Hybrid Server virtual machine on a Virtuozzo host.
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Performing migration of a Linux machine that contains logical volumes (LVM).
Use Agent for Linux or bootable media to create the backup, and then use bootable media to recover the backup.
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Providing drivers for specific hardware that is critical for the system bootability.
Build bootable media that can use the required drivers. For more information, see Bootable Media Builder.
See also