User`s guide

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Converter Standalone supports Virtual PC and Virtual Server virtual machines with most Windows
operating systems earlier than Windows NT 4.0 and with non-Windows operating systems (for example,
Linux and DOS) only for cloning. Converter Standalone does not support configuring for these systems.
The following are limitations for ShadowProtect and Backup Exec System Recovery:
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Dynamic disks are not supported.
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All images for the backup of a machine must be in a single folder with no other images placed there.
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For volume-based cloning, all volumes in the disk up to the active and system volumes must be backed
up. For example, if a disk has four partitions, 1 through 4, with partition 2 as the active volume and partition
3 as the system volume, the backup must include 1 through 3.
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For incremental images, up to 16 incremental backups are supported.
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Images of systems with logical drives are not supported if the logical drive is also a system or active volume
(ShadowProtect only).
Virtual Appliance Conversion Limitations
Some limitations exist when you convert virtual appliances.
The following scenarios are not supported:
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Converting local and remote physical machines to virtual appliances
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Selecting a subset of the volumes or resizing the volumes. You must select all volumes for an import and
maintain the size of all of the volumes on the target machine.
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Converting from OVF to OVF. That is, when both source and destination are virtual appliances.
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Converting third-party backup images or virtual machine images to a virtual appliance.
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Converting Windows 2000 virtual machines with scsiport.sys driver version 5.0.2195.7017 to a virtual
appliance.
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Converting Windows NT 4 SMP virtual machines to a virtual appliance.
Although Converter Standalone does not support the preceding scenarios, in each case you can use Converter
Standalone to first convert the source machine to a VMware virtual machine and then convert that machine to
a virtual appliance.
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