"Restore" ESXi to KVM

[jnsvano]

Hi,

We are using B&R version 11 for backup of Linux machines on Vmware ESXi hosts. Now we need to migrate some Linux machines from ESXi to KVM-based platform. Can we use B&R for this ?

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello,
Are these KVM based on Red Hat virtualization/ovirt?

Worse case scenario, you can do backups with the Veeam Agents of those VMs on VMware, and use the ISO and do a baremetal recover on that KVM hypervisor, that works and I had a few Customers that used it in the past.

[jnsvano]

Hi,

As I understand, it's RedHat based, but not real RedHat (Scale HC3).
Is there any documentation about method you wrote ("use the ISO and do a baremetal recover on that KVM hypervisor") ?

[mcrape]

I believe that Jorge is referring to https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=50

Basically, take a backup using the agent, create a new VM on the new hypervisor, and then use the bare metal restore option outlined above, even though it will be a VM.