Introducing Dell™ NetVault™ Bare Metal Recovery Plug-ins
Dell NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-ins: at a glance
Key benefits
Feature summary
Target audience
Recommended additional reading
Deploying NetVault Bare Metal Recovery
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery components
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery deployment scenarios
Using the Plug-in Offline Client
Plug-in Offline Client only x86/x86-64 Clients with Linux-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Windows with Windows-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Windows with Linux-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Linux with Linux-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Linux with Windows-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Windows and for Linux with Linux-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Live Client for Windows and for Linux with Windows-based NetVault Backup Server
Plug-in Server: an overview
Installing and removing Plug-in Server
Configuring Plug-in Server
Using Plug-in Live Client for Windows®
Creating a Plug-in Offline Client Boot System
Booting a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with Plug-in Offline Client
Creating a Linux®-based Boot System
Creating a Windows® PE-based Boot System
Creating a rescue device for use with a LiveCD
Adding a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client to the Plug-in Server
Booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with the Linux®-based Plug-in Offline Client
Booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with the Windows® PE-based Plug-in Offline Client
Loading drivers dynamically
Injecting drivers and restarting drdaemon to facilitate storage controller recognition
Injecting drivers into the Plug-in Offline Client image
Booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client from a LiveCD
Backing up data with Plug-in Offline Client
Restoring data
Plug-in Live Client for Windows: an overview
Configuring Plug-in Server
Using Plug-in Live Client for Linux®
Creating a Windows® PE-based Boot System
Adding a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client to the Plug-in Server
Installing and removing Plug-in Live Client for Windows®
Adding Plug-in Live Clients
Installing Plug-in Live Client for Windows
Upgrading Plug-in Live Client on Windows Server® 2008 and later
Removing Plug-in Live Client for Windows®
Backing up data with Plug-in Live Client for Windows®
Verifying access to the Plug-in Server
Performing an online backup of data with Windows Server® 2008
Booting a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with Plug-in Offline Client
Restoring data
Plug-in Live Client for Linux: an overview
Installing and removing Plug-in Live Client for Linux
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery physical-to-virtual recovery
Installing Plug-in Live Client for Linux on each Linux®-based NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client
Removing Plug-in Live Client for Linux®
Generating a DR image
Creating the required bootable CD
Recovering a DR image
Installing SCSI and IDE device drivers on a physical machine
Supported physical to virtual configurations
Troubleshooting
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery physical-to-virtual recovery
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.
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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. |
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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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Supported physical to virtual configurations
The following configurations are currently supported for Windows Server® 2008 (32/64-bit).