I have imaged a complete ESX system successfully and put it back up on a different piece of hardware with no problems!
This is great news to us so that we can standardize on the builds and allow us to put ESX up easier and faster!
However; this was done with Acronis TrueImage Server v9.1, which support Linux OS.
Ghost, complained and failed to do this (RED SCREENED)!
How to:
I booted off of the Acronis Boot Media and made an image then deployed is with the Boot Media CD.
Time was: Total of 5 minutes to "image and deploy"