• 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 systemNOTE: The Storage Controller Drivers are only needed if the restore being performed is to dissimilarhardware.Roadmap for performing a bare metal restore for aWindows machineTo perform a BMR for a Windows machine:1. Create a boot CD. See Creating A Bootable Cd Iso Image.2. Burn the image to disk.3. Boot the target server from the boot CD. See Loading A Boot CD.4. Connect to the recovery disk.5. Map the volumes. See Mapping Volumes.6. Initiate the recovery. See Launching A Restore From The AppAssure Core.7. Monitor the progress. See Viewing The Recovery Progress.Creating a bootable CD ISO imageTo perform a BMR for a Windows machine, you must create a bootable CD/ISO image in the CoreConsole, which contains the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console interface. The AppAssure UniversalRecovery Console is an environment used to restore the system drive or the entire server directly fromthe AppAssure Core.The ISO image that you create is tailored to the machine being restored; therefore, it must contain thecorrect network and mass storage drivers. If you anticipate that you will be restoring to differenthardware from the machine on which you are creating the boot CD, you must include storage controllerand other drivers in the boot CD see Injecting Drivers in a Boot CD.NOTE: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body ofrepresentatives 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. Itsupports 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 thenclick 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.132
