Loading Acronis Images

[Cstorms]

I am having a heck of a time trying to load acronis images onto virtual machines, I continually get the "archive is corrupted" error with every image I try and load (these are spanned images on a hard disk that have worked on physical machines). Has anyone had any success with this? I am trying to setup a virtual lab with our enviroment as it was a while ago but this is simply destroying my efforts.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Cstorms]

Well I settled on just imaging a machine and using the p2v utility.. This seemed to work, if any of you have had success with using Acronis images on VM please let me know. Thanks

 

[Arubianbanshee]

Cstorm,


For being able to use Acronis you need to use P2V Assistant. This is a tool that you need to use before powering up the VM otherwise you'll get errors.

Now a days you can use VMware Converter incombination with a 3rd party tool (Ghost 9 or higher / Backup Exec).
Make an image with one of these tool and then convert it with VMware Converter. VMware converter is a free tool that you can download from VMware.

Banshee

 

[Arisap]

There is a product called PowerConvert from PlateSpin. While the software can be costly, it does P2V's, V2V's and offers a variety of imaging solutions. PowerConvert does a tremendous amount of work in the P2V process seemlessly. The cost of the software may pay for itself in the time it saves.

http://www.platespin.com