This feature lets you organize physical servers, Hyper-V® servers, or VMware® vCenter™ objects — VMs, hosts, and folders — into groups, which lets you create a backup job for only the selected nodes. This feature provides additional flexibility for creating backup jobs.
IMPORTANT: A backup group must contain only physical objects, only Hyper-V objects, or only VMware® objects. You cannot combine VMware, Hyper-V, and physical objects into a single backup group. |
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In the My Inventory view, select the VMware, Hyper-V, or Physical tab. |
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Expand the Backup Group panel in the Inventory pane. Right-click an empty spot, select Add, and then click Backup Group. |
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Enter a name for the Backup Group, and click to select the nodes to include in the group. |
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Click Add. |
VSS Tools are only available for VMware® VMs and do not apply to Hyper-V® VMs or physical machines.
In addition to the standard quiescing implementation using VMware® Tools, vRanger provides an optional method for application quiescing on VMware VMs. This optional method uses a small executable tool — vzShadow.exe — deployed to the source VM and is enabled by VMware Tools during quiescing. The vRanger VSS Tools must be deployed to each VM for which you need application-consistent backups. For more information, see Application consistency for virtual backups.
NOTE: This method is available only for powered-on VMs running Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1 or later. |
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When the Configure VSS Tools dialog box appears, enter the name and password for an account with administrative privileges on the VM, and click Next. |
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If preferred, select Perform application log truncation. |
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Creates the C:\Program Files\Quest\vRanger\VSS directory, and populate the directory with the vzShadow executable and supporting files. |
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Creates the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\backupscripts.d directory, and creates a freeze.bat file in that directory that contains the appropriate contents based on your selections. |
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When the Configure VSS Tools dialog box appears, enter the name and password for an account with administrative privileges on the VM, and click Next. |
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Click Remove. |
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