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Cross Platform Recovery on Nakivo Backup and Replication

Nowadays most of the company uses virtualization for their servers. Most used virtualization solutions are VMware and Hyper-V. So, you may find some companies are using VMware Solutions and Some companies are using Hyper-V Solution. There are some companies also which uses both the solutions based on their requirements.

Every Company has their own Backup and Replication solutions in place for each virtualization platform. Let’s say you are having 2 platforms at place VMware and Hyper-V. So, in that case If you are taking backup of vSphere Virtual Machines and you want to move that virtual machine to the Hyper-V and it is not easy task for the IT administrators. In that case Nakivo Backup and Replication has good feature called Cross Platform Recovery.

With Cross-Platform Recovery, you can seamlessly protect VM data across multiple platforms and virtualized environments.

In Cross Platform Recovery you just must export the data in your desired format which is VMware or Hyper-V and then you can use that data for cross-platform recovery, long-term archival, or testing.

Key Features of Cross Platform Recovery:

  1. Migration from one Platform to Another
  2. Long Term VM Data Archival
  3. Recoverability Testing.

Cross Platform Recovery supports all 3 major virtual disks formats which as VMDK, VHD and VHDX. Cross-Platform Recovery gives you the tools for seamless cross-platform VM data protection and recovery.

How Cross Platform Recovery Works:-

Nowadays most of the company uses virtualization for their servers. Most used virtualization solutions are VMware and Hyper-V. So, you may find some companies are using VMware Solutions and Some companies are using Hyper-V Solution. There are some companies also which uses both the solutions based on their requirements.

Every Company has their own Backup and Replication solutions in place for each virtualization platform. Let’s say you are having 2 platforms at place VMware and Hyper-V. So, in that case If you are taking backup of vSphere Virtual Machines and you want to move that virtual machine to the Hyper-V and it is not easy task for the IT administrators. In that case Nakivo Backup and Replication has good feature called Cross Platform Recovery.

With Cross-Platform Recovery, you can seamlessly protect VM data across multiple platforms and virtualized environments.

In Cross Platform Recovery you just must export the data in your desired format which is VMware or Hyper-V and then you can use that data for cross-platform recovery, long-term archival, or testing.

Key Features of Cross Platform Recovery:

Migration from one Platform to Another

Long Term VM Data Archival

Recoverability Testing.

Cross Platform Recovery supports all 3 major virtual disks formats which as VMDK, VHD and VHDX. Cross-Platform Recovery gives you the tools for seamless cross-platform VM data protection and recovery.

How Cross Platform Recovery Works:-

Export VM data from Backup into required format using steps:

  • select a VMware or Hyper-V backup
  • choose one or multiple virtual disks that you want to export
  • specify the target location and export format (VMDK, VHD, or VHDX)
  • click a button and have the data of each selected disk exported into a separate file

Once exported, the files can be used for recovery or long-term storage.

Cross-Platform Recovery provides you greater flexibility, allowing you to recover VMs from backups created with NAKIVO Backup & Replication even if the source and destination platforms differ. This feature can be used for long-term archival, VM migration from one platform to another, and testing purposes.

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Mayur Parmar

Hi I am Mayur Parmar. Independent Author & Founder of Mastering VMware. I am working in IT industry for more than 4 Years with knowledge of VMware , Microsoft Server's, Linux Server's.

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