Organizations can now rapidly recover entire systems to dissimilar hardware platforms or even to virtual environments with the Restore Anyware Option.   This Option enables you to reduce recovery times and save significant hardware investments by eliminating the need to maintain duplicate hardware environments.

Dissimilar Hardware Restoration
This capability combines hot imaging with the ability to restore to different hardware platforms (including different storage controllers and hardware abstraction layers) on the fly. This capability allows users to load-balance their hardware environments by changing the profiles of hardware devices within minutes. A legacy machine whose capacity is constantly being overtaxed could have its image swapped with a high-powered server being underutilized within a matter of minutes.   This is useful for upgrading hardware or for repurposing systems to serve a different role.

Convert System Recovery Images into Virtual Machines and Back Again
Using the included 90-day trial version of VMWare Workstation & GSX Server, users are provided tools and instructions on how they can convert their existing machine into a VMDK file and even restore recovery points to virtual environments in VMWare. Organizations can restore their images to virtual environments to replace physical environments or to test restoration options in virtual environments. They can also restore the image in virtual environments to make changes or scan it for viruses and then save the corrected image out to a file format that LiveState Recovery can use to restore it to a physical system.

This p rovides greater flexibility to administrators in managing their recovery environments. This feature also improves change management processes by allowing administrators to convert an image into a virtual environment, test patches, application installations, etc. in that virtual environment to determine if those changes will cause systems to fail before applying them to their live systems.