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.

You perform a cross-platform recovery (machine migration) 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.
• When you recover a backup of a virtual machine to a virtual machine on a different type of hypervisor.

The following table summarizes the available options for cross-platform recovery.

Backed-up machine type	Available recovery destinations
	Physical machine	ESXi virtual machine	Azure virtual machine	Hyper-V virtual machine	Virtuozzo		Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine	Scale Computing HC3 virtual machine	RHV/oVirt virtual machine	Nutanix virtual machine
					Virtual machine	Container
Physical machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
VMware ESXi virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
Microsoft Azure virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
Hyper-V virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
Virtuozzo virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	+	-	+	+**	+	+
Virtuozzo container	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
Scale Computing HC3 virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+	+	+
Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+
Nutanix virtual machine	+	+	+	+*	-	-	+	+**	+	+

* Notes about recovery to Hyper-V hosts:

• 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.

** If Secure Boot is enabled on the source machine, the recovered virtual machine will not be able to start up unless you disable Secure Boot in the VM console after the recovery.

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:

• Performing a migration that is not natively supported.

  For example, use bootable media to recover a physical machine or a non-Virtuozzo virtual machine as a Virtuozzo virtual machine on a Virtuozzo host.

• 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.

• 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.