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As far as Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition goes, it sounds like Acronis. &nbsp;Does it work with HyperV? &nbsp;Have you actually used it as I described to transfer to a RAID system from a virtual system?
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andyhalder:

As far as Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition goes, it sounds like Acronis.  Does it work with HyperV?  Have you actually used it as I described to transfer to a RAID system from a virtual system?

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I want to migrate &nbsp;a 2008 R2 VM to run physically on a system with a RAID controller - in other words I am 'devirtualizing', going from virtual to physical. I have used &nbsp;Ghost and &nbsp;other tools to do something like this but there was no &nbsp;RAID controller on the target physical system in those transfers. &nbsp;I don't see how it would work here as I can't install the RAID drivers while the system is virtualized - it looks for the actual hardware which is not there in the VM. &nbsp;So when I transfer to physical I don't see how the image will boot on the RAID controller without the RAID drivers.
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I want to migrate  a 2008 R2 VM to run physically on a system with a RAID controller - in other words I am 'devirtualizing', going from virtual to physical. I have used  Ghost and  other tools to do something like this but there was no  RAID controller on the target physical system in those transfers.  I don't see how it would work here as I can't install the RAID drivers while the system is virtualized - it looks for the actual hardware which is not there in the VM.  So when I transfer to physical I don't see how the image will boot on the RAID controller without the RAID drivers.

virtual to physical RAID transfer

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Server Hardware

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.