Hi all,
pretty straightforward question here. When doing a bare metal restore of a server, do you need to restore it onto the exact same type of server (make, model, parts etc) that it was taken on? To break this down to it's most basic level, if you did a complete backup of a 2012R2 OS on an HP server, could you then use Windows Recovery to restore that image onto a Dell server (assuming the hard drive was adequately sized)? An engineer at one of our data centres has said that a full backup image can only be restored onto a server which is an exact physical copy of the original....
Thanks