Machine migration

You can perform machine migration by recovering its backup to a non-original machine.

The following table summarizes the available migration options.

	Physical machine	ESXi virtual machine	Hyper-V virtual machine	Virtual machine	Container	Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine	Scale Computing HC3 virtual machine	RHV/oVirt virtual machine
Backed-up machine type	Available recovery destinations
	Physical machine	ESXi virtual machine	Hyper-V virtual machine	Virtuozzo		Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine	Scale Computing HC3 virtual machine	RHV/oVirt virtual machine
Physical machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+
VMware ESXi virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+
Microsoft Azure virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+
Hyper-V virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+
Virtuozzo virtual machine	+	+	+	+	-	+	+*	+
Virtuozzo container	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+
Scale Computing HC3 virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+
Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt virtual machine	+	+	+	-	-	+	+*	+

*If Secure Boot is enabled on the source machine, the recovered VM will not be able to start up unless you disable Secure Boot in the VM console after the recovery.

You cannot recover macOS virtual machines to Hyper-V hosts, because Hyper-V does not support macOS. You can recover macOS virtual machines to a VMware host that is installed on Mac hardware.

For more information on how to perform the migration operations, see the following topics:

For physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration, see Physical machine to virtual.
For virtual-to-virtual (V2V) migration, see Recovering a virtual machine.
For virtual-to-physical (V2P) migration, see Recovering a virtual machine and Recovering disks by using bootable media.

Migration via a bootable media

As an alternative to the machine migration that you perform in the Cyber Protect console, you can recover a machine by using a bootable media.

We recommend that you use a bootable media in the following cases:

Performing a migration that is not natively supported.

For example, use a bootable media to recover a physical machine or a non-Virtuozzo virtual machine as a Virtuozzo virtual machine on a Virtuozzo host.
Performing migration of a Linux machine that contains logical volumes (LVM).

Use Agent for Linux or bootable media to create the backup, and then use a bootable media to recover the backup.
Providing drivers for specific hardware that is critical for the system bootability.

Build a bootable media that can use the required drivers. For more information, see Bootable Media Builder.