About converting recovery points to virtual disks
You can use schedule recovery point conversion of a physical computer to a virtual hard disk. You can create a VMware virtual disk , a Microsoft virtual disk , or a VMware ESX Server.
When you convert recovery points to virtual disks, it has the following benefits:
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Useful if the physical hardware on the client computer fails.
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You avoid losing the services on the physical computer. For example, when you perform a hot swap of a service from a physical to virtual environment.
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Excellent for testing and evaluation purposes.
You can find a list of platforms that support the virtual disks that are created from recovery points in the software compatibility list. The software compatibility list is available at the following URL:
Note: Be aware that each time the conversion task runs, the new virtual disk file that is created replaces the previous virtual disk file.