Lun Migration from Esxi host to a Physical Server without formatting

Hello Everyone.

We have an Esxi host to which a LUN is mounted from EMC. That LUN is further mounted to a VM which is a database server as VMDK not RDM.

However, we need to migrate that LUN from the Esxi host to a Windows server 2008 R2 which is installed on a Physical Box.

My Questions: How do we convert the VMDK so that it becomes compatible with the windows server on a Physical Box? Are there any other challenges that we might come across while migrating this LUN from Esxi to a Physical Box?

Can I just backup the data from that VMDK and then unmount the LUN and write that data back on to that LUN after mounting it on the Physical Box?

Any help and suggestions in this regards would be very much appreciated.

Thanks