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NetVault Bare Metal Recovery 10.5 - User Guide for Plug-ins

Introducing Dell™ NetVault™ Bare Metal Recovery Plug-ins Deploying NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Using the Plug-in Offline Client Using Plug-in Live Client for Windows® Using Plug-in Live Client for Linux® NetVault Bare Metal Recovery physical-to-virtual recovery Troubleshooting

NetVault Bare Metal Recovery physical-to-virtual recovery

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Installing SCSI and IDE device drivers on a physical machine
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Supported physical to virtual configurations

Installing SCSI and IDE device drivers on a physical machine

If you are using the Linux®-based Plug-in Offline Client and you are migrating a physical server to a virtual environment in which the Client is Windows®-based, you must install the disk drivers on the OS before you back up the machine. The restored virtual machine does not boot up because the restored image contains SCSI/IDE drivers for the source physical machine. The restored virtual machine does not have the drivers for the target virtual machine SCSI/IDE controller. This issue causes a blue screen error and the boot fails, as it cannot find any disks.
The solution is to create the “.inf” file that informs the Windows installer to load the appropriate drivers to the system and make correct registry entries every time Windows boots. Installation of the “.inf” file is required prior backing up the physical machine so that after the restore, the correct driver is loaded and detects the VMware IDE/SCSI controller.
Dell provides the following device driver “.inf” files:
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“vm_ide_2008.inf”: IDE device driver for Windows Server 2008 and 2012/2012 R2
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“vm_lsi_2008.inf”: SCSI device driver for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 and 2012/2012 R2
 
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NOTE: The device driver must be installed on the source (physical) machine, but the type of device driver must match the target (virtual) machine. For example, to migrate a Windows Server 2008 physical machine with a SATA driver to a virtual machine with a SCSI driver, install “vm_lsi_2008.inf” on the physical machine. For all supported configurations, see Supported physical to virtual configurations.
You can download the device driver “.inf” files from the Dell website.
To install the necessary device driver:
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Copy the required device driver (for example, “vm_ide_2008.inf”) to the physical machine.
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Locate the file on the physical machine, right-click it, and select Install from the pop-up menu.
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When the Hardware Installation warning message appears, click Continue Anyway.
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Reboot the system for the new settings to take effect.

Supported physical to virtual configurations

The following configurations are currently supported for Windows Server® 2008 (32/64-bit).
 
Table 1. Supported configurations
Source (physical)
Target (VM)
IDE
IDE
IDE
SCSI
SATA
IDE
SATA
SCSI
SCSI
IDE
SCSI
SCSI

Troubleshooting

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Excluding LUNs from the NetVault Backup Selections pages
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Performing a restore in which Disk Numbers are different from the backup
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