Full Virtualization

Full Virtualization creates a new VM that contains a duplicate of the original server. Each partition of the snapshot is physically transferred to its own disk volume on the new VM during virtualization. In other words, Full Virtualization creates a virtual disk with the same layout as the corresponding disk of the backed up source machine and populates it with the backed up data. This method is often used to create permanent VMs that can be put into production.

Most Full Virtualization jobs from snapshots of Windows clients are eligible for RRP processing and will transparently use RRP to bring the machine back in minutes. Such jobs are called Full Virtualization with RRP or Full with RRP. For more information about RRP, see Migration from Virtual Snapshot Storage to Local Storage: RRP.

Tip. All the source disks will be created as VMDK files on the specified datastore, based on the snapshot image from the secondary storage system.

See also. For more information about RRP for virtual machines backup, go to Rapid Return to Production (RRP).