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vRanger 7.6.6 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

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Port requirements

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Port requirements

The following table lists the ports used by each of the vRanger components.

Table 12. Ports

Port number

Protocol

Direction

21

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to FTP Repository

22

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to SFTP Repository

vRanger to VMware® ESXi™ Host

vRanger to VA

VA to VA

53

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to DNS Server

137

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

137

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

138

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

139

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

443

TCP

vRanger and VA to ESXi hosts

vRanger and VA to VMware® vCenter™

445

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

vRanger to VA

902

TCP

vRanger to Hosts

VA to Hosts

2049

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository

2049

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository

37453

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NetVault SmartDisk Repository

10011

TCP

RDA Control Channel

11000

TCP

RDA Data Channel

51000

TCP

Physical Backup: vRanger to physical server

Additional port requirements

For the VA designated for Linux® FLR, the firewall must be configured to allow ICMP (ping) packets.

Compatibility with other applications

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System requirements and compatibility > Compatibility with other applications

Compatibility with other applications

vRanger can be used with various applications to provide additional functionality. The following table summarizes which applications are supported by the most recent versions of vRanger.

Table 13. Compatibility

Company

Application

Application version

vRanger version

Support details

7.6.3

7.6.4

7.6.5

7.6.6

Quest

NetVault SmartDisk

2.0.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.0

X

 

 

 

 

11.4.5

 

X

X

X

 

DR OS1 2

3.2

X

 

 

 

RDA Plug-in versions 4.0.3 and 4.1 are supported.

3.4

X

 

 

 

 

4.0

 

X

X

X

EMC®

DD OS3

5.5

 

 

 

 

 

5.6

 

 

 

 

 

5.7

X

X

X

X

 

6.0

 

X

X

X

 

 

 

6.1

 

X

X

X

 


1

2

3
Data Domain® operating system

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

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Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

vRanger uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to provide application consistency. To leverage VSS, the following conditions must be met:

The source server must be running an operating system that supports VSS quiescing. The following lists the supported guest operating systems:

For VM backups, you must be running VMware® ESXi™ 6.0 or later with updated VMware Tools.

 

Table 14.  

File-level quiescing

 

ESXi 6.0

ESXi 6.5

ESXi 6.7

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

Windows Server 2016

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

VMware VSS

 

 

 

 

Application-level quiescing

 

ESXi 6.0

ESXi 6.5

ESXi 6.7

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

Windows Server 2016

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

vzShadow.exe

Installing vRanger

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vRanger installation overview

This version of the software can be installed on a physical or virtual machine (VM). When you complete one of these processes, three services are installed: Quest vRanger Service, Quest vRanger API Service, and Quest vRanger File Level Restore Service. The optional Quest vRanger Catalog Service may also be installed, based on your selections.

You need the following to install vRanger:

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