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Image to VM

Backup > Image to VM

The Image to VM page converts an existing volume backup image to one of three types of virtual machine file formats: Virtual PC, VMware and ESX. This enables you to install a backup to a virtual machine environment.

Any other machine with an agent can be used to perform the conversion of the backup file so long as the machine has read access to the image location.

Successful and failed Image to VM conversion log entries are listed in Backup Logs.

Click a machine ID to select a volume backup to convert. The list of machine IDs you can select depends on the machine ID / group ID filter. To display on this page, machine IDs must have backup software installed on the managed machine using the Backup > Install/Remove page.

Note: 64-bit image to VM VHD conversions are not supported.

Convert from <machine ID>

Select Convert from machine ID to convert the backup using the same machine ID that the backup image was made on.

Convert from <select machine ID>

Select Convert from select machine ID to convert the backup using a different machine ID.

Destination Virtual Harddrive Image Type

Select one of the following virtual harddrive image types:

  • Virtual PC - Microsoft's brand of virtual machine manager. Virtual PC is installed on top of a Windows OS.
  • VMware - Creates a VMware image type file compatible with a Windows-based VMware product such as VMware Server or VMware Workstation. VMware Server in installed on top of a Windows OS and depends on Windows to manage hardware partitioning and access.
  • ESX - ESX is VMware's version of a virtual machine hypervisor. A hypervisor is a thin OS that is installed on the hardware directly, bypassing the use of a general purpose server OS, such as Microsoft Server.

Converted image will be written to Volume Path

Identifies the path where the converted VM image will be written.

Destination File Name

Enter a unique filename for VM image file you are about to create.

Convert Image

Select one of the existing volume backups to convert, then click Convert Image to begin the conversion. An additional identifier, such as /harddisk:1, indicates the image type and disk number.