Recovering Data from a Physical to Virtual Machine

This section provides you with the information on how to perform Disaster Recovery from physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) using the CA ARCserve Backup Disaster Recovery Option. The following diagram illustrates a typical P2V setting:

Now, using the Disaster Recovery Option you can recover a physical server to a virtual machine that is depot in some virtual infrastructures like VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V Server.

This section contains the following topics:

Prerequisites

Scenarios for Local and Remote Restore

Other Known Issues