LiveState Recovery (LSR) and Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) support for Citrix / XenServer.

Article:TECH55333  |  Created: 2007-01-06  |  Updated: 2011-06-02  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH55333
Article Type
Technical Solution


Environment

Problem



LiveState Recovery (LSR) and Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) support for Citrix / XenServer.


Solution



BESR 8.5 supports Citrix Xen App 4.5 and Citrix XenServer 4.1.  VHD and VMDK files created by BESR must be imported to a full VM before they are converted to XenServer (SVA) format.  Recovery points (v2i/iv2i) can be restored directly to a XenServer VM using the recovery disk. BESR fully supports protecting Windows systems running in a XenServer VM.  Versions previous to BESR 8.5  (LSR 3 &6, and BESR 6.5, 7, 8) have not been tested on Citrix and Symantec does not support this OS. This applies to all versions of Citrix Metaframe. Previous versions of LSR/BESR might work on Citrix, however Symantec does not provide support should any issues arise.

 
System Recovery does not support Linux virtual machines running on XenServer hosts at this time.



Legacy ID



293851


Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH55333


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