vRanger 7.7 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Port requirements

Port requirements

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

 

Table 12. Ports

Port number	Protocol	Direction
22	TCP	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.

•	For physical backups to function correctly, the firewall must be configured to allow WMI connections.

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	7.7
Quest	NetVault SmartDisk	2.0.1
		10.0	X
		11.4.5		X	X	X	X
	DR OS1	3.2	X					RDA Plug-in versions 4.0.3 and 4.1 are supported.
		3.4	X
		4.0		X	X	X	X
	QoreStor	4.1					X
EMC®	DD OS2	5.5
		5.6
		5.7	X	X	X	X	X
		6.0		X	X	X	X
		6.1		X	X	X	X

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Operating system for the Quest DR Series appliance.

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Data Domain® operating system

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

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:

▪	Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

▪	Windows Server 2012

▪	Windows Server 2012 R2

▪	Windows Server 2016

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

•	For application consistency, the application must support VSS quiescing. As shown in the following table, application consistency is not always available with the basic quiescing options. In these situations, you may use the vRanger VSS Tools for application-level consistency.

 

 

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

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:

•	A physical machine or VM to host the installation.

•	Administrator access to the machine on which the software is installed.