Dissimilar Hardare Disaster Recovery?

[arcagent]

Does the Veritas Disaster Recovery option support bringing back a different server from that which was originally backed up?

See following link

http://eval.veritas.com/downloads/pro/bmr/bmr_46_types_hw_address_slide.pdf

The first bullet says "Manufacturer and Model" and then it goes on to list specific changes in hardware. What does the first bullet imply? That I can bring back a Dell server from a Compaq DR backup and that it will gracefully reconfigure and repair dissimilarities across ALL hardware differences?

Or -

Are they simply taking what ALL Windows 2000 restorations tolerate with regard to hardware changes and claiming it as special dissimilar hardware restoration technology?

Thanks

 

[Cuba7]

I think it will tolerate some small changes, the same as taking out the HDD and putting it in a new machine.

Veritas has software called Bare Metal Restore which is specifically designed for dissimilar hardware, so I assume this is a limitation in BE, otherwise they wouldn't have another product.

-Cuba