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11 P2V Migration
11.1 How to Perform a P2V Migration
To reduce hardware requirements, there is often a need to migrate physical machines to virtual
ones. To perform a physical to virtual migration (P2V), you need to boot your physical machine from
Acronis bootable Media, create a full backup and then restore it to a virtual machine.
To perform a P2V migration the following steps are to be made:
1. Create Acronis Bootable Media. Download the Acronis Bootable Media Builder of Acronis
vmProtect 9 from the My products & Downloads section of your account at the Acronis website.
Install it.
2. Boot the physical machine that you need to migrate to virtual from Acronis Bootable Media.
3. Create a full backup of the physical machine.
4. Run Acronis vmProtect 9 web console, connect to the Acronis Agent and click Restore on the
Actions tab.
5. Select the created backup and choose the target ESX(i) host where to restore the backup.
