Veeam bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware brand with dissimilar drivers

[phiaramos]

Hello,

We are trying to do bare-metal recovery of our entire physical server backup (SuperMicro) to different hardware (Lenovo). But on Disk Mapping part, we cannot customize the partition because there's no setting appearing on disk, I think this is due to different drivers. Drivers of Lenovo server is already installed. Is it possible to do bare-metal recovery for this dissimilar hardware and drivers? Which drivers should we install? Thank you.

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, restore to different hardware is possible. The drivers for the disk / RAID controller in the server needs to be used.

Lenovo support should be able to figure out which driver is the correct one.

Best regards,
Hannes

[Hindawi]

Yes as HannesK said it is possible, for driver installation check >> https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=50

[phiaramos]

Hello,

Just to give you an update, we raised this to Veeam support here is the Case# 05332652.
We were advised to create recovery media using Lenovo server, which we did and the recovery proceeded. Disk mapping already showed, but unfortunately after the process we reboot the server, it is stuck on Windows logo, it seems to have boot looped. We already tried unchecking the 'Inject Driver' then redo the bare-metal but still the same.

[Dima P.]

Hello phiaramos,

Have your tried to boot Windows in the safe mode after recovery was perfromed? Thanks!

[P_P]

Does it boot in safe mode?

If it stops there, it's usually due to loading drivers, as you suspect.

Is there a reason why you can't set the Lenovo up as a hypervisor and restore the old server as a VM?