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Title
Xen Drivers that are Needed for the Boot CD in for use with a BMR -
Description
When restoring a server running on Xenserver using Bare Metal Restore process you will need to load drivers to the Boot CD for the network card and/or storage. -
Cause
Bare Metal Restore process requires additional drivers to complete successfully. -
Resolution
Please use the drivers attached .
Instructions on how to perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) process are in the following KB: How to perform a Bare Metal Restore for a Windows machine (4033655) (quest.com)
This KB describes the steps on how to upload drivers to a Boot CD: How to Inject a New Driver after Dissimilar Hardware Restore (4033519) (quest.com)
If the Universal Recovery Console doesn't load properly the Xen drivers for the NIC and instead it keeps applying the default ones (in CMD run ipconfig /all), please run the following script in CMD to apply it.
The loaded drivers can impact the performance speed of the restore job. -
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