BE2014 SDR Crashing when booting from iso image

[syed_jahanzaib]

in BE2014, I have created the SDR cd using 'crearte Disaster Recovery CD' option via GUI.

When I try to boot my system from this CD, I get following error. and it keep restarting every time.

any clue?

[Colin_Weaver]

I suspect you might be the first to report this - certainly wans't mentioned during the beta testing.  As such time to log a formal support call.

[syed_jahanzaib]

Then I guess I have to wait

[Colin_Weaver]

Could you provide a little more detail about the machine you are booting ther CD in?

Is it virtual or physical?

If virtual what virtuial environmen (Hyper-V, Vmware + version) is it running in?

If physical what is the actual hardware? (Server model, Network card model, SCSI card for drives etc)

[syed_jahanzaib]

The backup server machine is as follows.

IBM xseries 3650
32 GB RAM / 300GB HDD

I am testing restore in VM workstation (hosted on win7 64bit machine) by booting via SDR .iso image.
 

[Colin_Weaver]

Please confirm what environment is hosting the SDR VM (HyperV, VMware ESX) and provide version

[syed_jahanzaib]

VMWARE Workstation ver 8.x (Hosted in Win 7 64bit) (with around equvillent hardware as backuped machine,

[Colin_Weaver]

Thanks I'll check back with the team that suggested that virtualization might be the cause of your problem

[criley · Accepted solution]

I suspect the problem is caused by VMware Workstation 8 not supporting Win 8/2012:

https://www.vmware.com/support/ws80/doc/releasenotes_workstation_805.html

SDR in BE 2014 uses WinPE 4.0 I believe which is based on Windows 8/2012, as per:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment

I think you will need to upgrade VMware Workstation to at least version 9 to get this working .....

[syed_jahanzaib]

Ok I tested it on physical machine and it booted fine. probably compatbility issues with workstation 7/8