Boot your physical machine from Acronis Bootable Media. Create a full backup and then restore it to a virtual machine

This article applies to:

• Acronis vmProtect 7

Introduction

To do a physical to virtual migration (P2V), you will need to boot your physical machine from Acronis Bootable Media, create a full backup and then restore it to a virtual machine.

Solution

P2V steps:

1. Create Acronis Bootable Media:
   • Acronis vmProtect 7: Downloading Acronis Media Builder
   • Acronis vmProtect 7: Installation of Acronis Bootable Media Builder
   • Acronis vmProtect 7: Creating Acronis Bootable Media
2. Boot the physical machine that you need to migrate to virtual from Acronis Bootable Media:

   6

3. Create a full backup of the physical machine:

   

4. Run Acronis vmProtect 7 web console, connect to the Acronis Agent and run Recovery. See Acronis vmProtect 7: Web Console;
5. Select the full backup that you have created at Step 1 and choose the target ESX(i) host where to restore the backup.

More information

See also:

• Acronis vmProtect 7: Acronis Bootable Media
• Acronis vmProtect 7: P2V Migration of Linux Is Not Supported