Cross-Hypervisor Restores (VM Conversion)
When restoring from a virtual machine backup, you can choose to convert a virtual machine to be used with a different hypervisor.
You can perform VM conversions from streaming backups, from secondary copies, or, for hypervisors that support IntelliSnap, from IntelliSnap backup copies. You cannot perform a conversion from a Snap copy.
Supported Conversions
You can choose a different destination hypervisor when restoring a virtual machine from backups. This feature is referred to as cross-hypervisor restores, VM conversion or, when restoring from an on-premises deployment to a cloud platform, cloud migration.
The following table shows the types of cross-hypervisor restores that are supported from the Command Center and the CommCell Console.
Source type |
Destination type |
Available from Command Center |
Available from CommCell Console |
Amazon |
Azure |
no |
yes (SP7 and later) |
Amazon |
VMware |
no |
yes (SP13 and later) |
Azure |
Amazon |
yes (SP16 and later) |
yes (SP16 and later) |
Azure |
Azure Stack |
yes (SP19 and later) |
yes (SP12 and later) |
Azure |
Hyper-V |
yes (SP18 and later) |
yes (SP18 and later) |
Azure |
VMware |
yes (SP17 and later) |
yes (SP17 and later) |
Azure Classic |
Azure |
no |
yes (SP9 and later) |
Hyper-V |
Amazon |
no |
yes (any V11 SP) |
Hyper-V |
Azure |
yes |
yes (any V11 SP) |
Hyper-V |
VMware |
yes (SP14 and later) |
yes (SP13 and later) |
Nutanix AHV |
Azure |
yes (SP16 and later) |
yes (SP16 and later) |
Oracle VM |
Azure |
yes (SP16 and later) |
yes (SP16 and later) |
VMware |
Alibaba Cloud ECS |
yes (11.19 and later) |
no |
VMware |
Amazon |
yes |
yes (SP3 and later) |
VMware |
Azure |
yes |
yes (any V11 SP) |
VMware |
Azure Stack |
no |
yes (SP12 and later) |
VMware |
Google Cloud Platform |
yes (11.20 and later) |
yes (SP15 and later) |
VMware |
Hyper-V |
yes |
yes (any V11 SP) |
VMware |
Nutanix AHV |
no |
yes (SP12 and later) |
VMware |
OpenStack |
no |
yes (SP7 and later) |
VMware |
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
yes (SP14 and later) |
no |
Last modified: 11/22/2019 8:03:36 PM