Cross-Hypervisor Restores (VM Conversion)

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When restoring from a virtual machine backup, you can choose to convert a virtual machine to be used with a different hypervisor. This feature is referred to as a cross-hypervisor restore, VM conversion, or cloud migration (that is, when restoring from an on-premises deployment to a cloud platform).

You can perform conversions from streaming backups or from secondary copies.

Conversion Support

The following table shows the cross-hypervisor restores that are supported by Metallic.

Source/Destination

Amazon

Azure

Hyper-V

VMware

OCI VM

Amazon

Yes

Yes

--

Yes

--

Azure

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

--

Hyper-V

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

--

VMware

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

OCI VM

--

--

--

--

Yes