Prox backups cross-platform recovery experiences?

Hey Eric...about the only thing I’ve seen on this and am aware of is a former Vanguard who shared a post last yr on how to clean up Windows VMs after migration. It has to do with the drivers/tools. He created a PoSH script to automate cleanup. His post is below.

Thanks, I’ll check it out. I think I’m going to POC this after I wrap up some new SVMM builds. From digging in a bit already, it looks like Hyper-V is going to be the most mature in the cross-platform aspect. The synthetic driver injection via Veeam in the restore process looks somewhat promising for Linux. Oddly enough, I think Windows might be the bigger effort on our end. I’ll update with with outcomes once I finish up the POC.  

Ok, sounds good.

Curious..have you looked at XCP-ng? I’ve been playing around with that since last summer. Not bad. 

I’ve had it in the lab for a few months. I like it in general but have not done anything on a larger scale with it. So far this year the focus has been Nutanix, Hyper-V and Prox. They make up the majority of the transitional we are seeing thus far with the odd Kube or two popping up here and there. 

i haven’t played around with Proxmox nor have customers with it ..i have done from VMware to HyperV, Nutanix, Scale, and going to test HPE VM Essentials soon. 

I did a few of those cross plattform recoveries, including proxmox. With linux systems, I had not a lot of issues. However, if you have special linux appliances, I would not recommend this because it’s maybe simpler (and only supported from vendor) to just deploy new machines and migrate with offiial vendor tools. 

And for windows, maybe around 80% worked at me basically without issues. If you recover/migrate a windows machine to Hyper-V, all the drivers should be installed already, so there are basically no issues.