Do I need to inject storage drivers when performing bare metal recovery to a virtual machine?

SUMMARY

This article provides information about driver injection when performing Windows bare metal recovery to a virtual machine.

ISSUE

When performing Windows bare metal recovery (image-based or integrated) of a physical client to a virtual machine, you must inject either Hyper-V or VMware storage drivers depending on the location of the VM.

For details about restoring a physical client to a virtual machine, see the following sections of the Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator's Guide:

• Physical to Virtual (P2V) imaged-based restores of Windows clients
• To perform the integrated bare metal recovery to a virtual destination