DR test - Windows 2008 R2 physical restored to Hyper-V VM

Dashrender

From what I can tell, the system should just boot - rarely do I see anyone mentioning any problem, and where I do see a problem mentioned, I don't see solutions.

JaredBusch

Why did you make it a Gen1 VM in the first place?

Nuke it and make it Gen 2 like it should be. Just turn off secure boot in the settings before you power on.

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said:

Why did you make it a Gen1 VM in the first place?

Nuke it and make it Gen 2 like it should be. Just turn off secure boot in the settings before you power on.

Yeah I was wondering that.

When I restored my disks, I restored them into IDE based disks... do you think this matters?

DustinB3403

I'm not very familiar with Hyper-V but if you need SCSI drivers to load the VM it appears you'd have to use a Gen 2 Hyper-V VM.

here's how to use BCDEdit.

JaredBusch

Just start over. Don't try to hack something together. You should always work from a clean setup.

JaredBusch

If you were under a DR situation, that would be different. You are in setup and test phase though.

So setup and test like you will for production. From a clean restore into the correct VM setup.

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said:

If you were under a DR situation, that would be different. You are in setup and test phase though.

So setup and test like you will for production. From a clean restore into the correct VM setup.

Thanks - I was under the impression that I need to use a Gen1 for something like 2008 R2... but that was my mistake... trying again - will restore the whole thing again.

Dashrender

OK no go... the system won't even try to boot off my vendor supplied recover ISO. When booting from Win2K8R2 iso, it hangs at the Starting Windows screen.

JaredBusch

So Gen2 is out because 2008 R2 does not work in Gen2, which sucks, as my (obviously flawed) memory though 2008 R2 worked in Gen 2.

So it is back to Gen 1 for you.

Dashrender

Currently restoring just the drive in an attempt to just get the system booting.

If that works, then I'll restore the other partitions later.

LAH3385

@Dashrender Otherwise you may have to get third party software involve. Like VeeAM.

LAH3385

@Dashrender said:

Currently restoring just the drive in an attempt to just get the system booting.

If that works, then I'll restore the other partitions later.

Or you could go P2V right now and update your DR. I am currently in progress of converting all of our servers into VMs.

Dashrender

@LAH3385
Eventually I will end up where you are suggesting - though I currently use Dell's Appassure Replay, not Veeam.