Roadmap For Performing A Bare Metal Restore For A Windows Machine; Creating A Bootable Cd Iso Image - Dell DL4000 User Manual

• Hardware to restore (new or old, similar or dissimilar)
• Blank CD and CD burning software
• VNC viewer (optional)
• Windows 7 PE (32-bit) Compatible Drivers Storage and Network adapter drivers for the target machine
• Storage Controller, RAID, AHCI, and chipset drivers for the target operating system
NOTE: The Storage Controller Drivers are only needed if the restore being performed is to dissimilar
hardware.
Roadmap for performing a bare metal restore for a
Windows machine
To perform a BMR for a Windows machine:
1. Create a boot CD. See
2. Burn the image to disk.
3. Boot the target server from the boot CD. See
4. Connect to the recovery disk.
5. Map the volumes. See
6. Initiate the recovery. See
7. Monitor the progress. See

Creating a bootable CD ISO image

To perform a BMR for a Windows machine, you must create a bootable CD/ISO image in the Core
Console, which contains the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console interface. The AppAssure Universal
Recovery Console is an environment used to restore the system drive or the entire server directly from
the AppAssure Core.
The ISO image that you create is tailored to the machine being restored; therefore, it must contain the
correct network and mass storage drivers. If you anticipate that you will be restoring to different
hardware from the machine on which you are creating the boot CD, you must include storage controller
and other drivers in the boot CD see
NOTE: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body of
representatives from various national organizations who determine and set file system standards.
The ISO 9660 is a file system standard that is used for optical disk media for the exchange of data. It
supports various operating systems, such as Windows. An ISO image is the archive file or disk image,
which contains data for every sector of the disk as well as the disk file system.
To create a bootable CD ISO image:
1. From the Core Console on which the server you want to restore is located, select the Core and then
click the Tools tab.
2. Click Boot CDs.
3. Select Actions, and then click Create Boot ISO.
The Create Boot CD dialog box displays. To complete the dialog box, use the following procedures.
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Creating A Bootable Cd Iso
Mapping Volumes.
Launching A Restore From The AppAssure
Viewing The Recovery
Injecting Drivers in a Boot
Image.
Loading A Boot CD.
Core.
Progress.
CD.