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 If you want the backup and the conversion to be executed on a schedule. This helps you
maintain a standby virtual server ready to power on in case your physical server fails.
 If you do not need to adjust the resulting virtual machine settings.
How to perform. When creating a backup plan (p. 32), enable conversion of a backup to a virtual
machine (p. 136).
b) Recover the backed up disks or volumes to the "New virtual machine" destination
When to use.
 If you want to do the conversion once or occasionally, as required.
 If you want to do a lossless physical to virtual migration. In this case, you boot the original
machine from bootable media, back up the machine in the off-line state and immediately
recover the machine from the resulting backup.
 If you need to adjust the resulting virtual machine settings. You may want to add or remove
disks, choose the disk provisioning mode, change the volume sizes and their location on the
disks, and more.
How to perform. Follow the steps described in "Recovery to the 'New virtual machine'
destination" (p. 139).
c) Recover the backed up disks or volumes to a manually created virtual machine by using
bootable media
When to use.
 If you want to create a machine directly on a virtualization server, rather than import it.
Tip. With Agent for ESX(i) or Agent for Hyper-V, a virtual machine can be created directly on
a respective virtualization server by using methods (a) and (b).
 If you need to recreate dynamic volumes on a Windows machine.
 If you need to recreate logical volumes or software RAID on a Linux machine.
How to perform. Follow the steps described in “Recovery to a manually created virtual machine”
(p. 142).
6.2 Conversion to an automatically created virtual
machine
This section describes the conversion methods (p. 133) in which Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
automatically creates a new virtual machine:
 During conversion which is part of a backup plan (p. 136), the software creates the virtual
machine in addition to creating the backup. The virtual machine has the same configuration as
the original machine.
 During recovery to the "New virtual machine" destination (p. 139), the software creates the
virtual machine from a backup you already have. You can change the configuration of the virtual
machine.
Depending on the agent that performs the conversion, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 can create a
virtual machine of any of these formats:
Agent for Windows, Agent for Linux
 VMware Workstation
 Microsoft Virtual PC (includes Windows Virtual PC)
 Citrix XenServer OVA