vRanger 7.8 - User Guide

Quest® vRanger®: at a glance Key benefits Major feature list Target audience Recommended additional reading vRanger overviewvRanger overview Installation overview

Before installing Downloading an evaluation copy of vRanger Installing vRanger

Configuration overview

Adding inventory for protection Adding repositories Deploying virtual appliances (VAs) Adding physical servers to inventory Scheduling a backup job Scheduling a replication job

Configuration overview Configuring vRanger through the Startup Wizard

Opening the Startup Wizard Adding and selecting a license Adding vCenter and host information Adding Hyper-V System Center VMM, cluster, and host information Selecting hosts for licenses Adding a physical machine Selecting physical machines for licenses Deploying and configuring the VA from the Startup Wizard Adding a repository Setting up the SMTP server Adding an email address

Configuring vRanger manually

Adding a vCenter Adding a vCloud Director Adding an ESXi server Adding a Hyper-V System Center VMM, cluster, or host Adding a physical server Adding a repository Managing repository replication Configuring an SMTP server Configuring display language Configuring a virtual appliance (VA) Importing a license file Managing VM host licensing Managing physical machine licensing Managing job configuration settings Enabling cataloging options Managing Transport Failover options Configuring the number of times a backup process tries to run

Supplemental instructions: additional repository types

Adding an NFS repository Adding a NetVault SmartDisk repository Adding an EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) repository Adding a Quest Rapid Data Access (RDA) repository Understanding the vRanger virtual appliance (VA) The VA scratch disk Deploying the VA by using the Virtual Appliance Deployment Wizard About deploying multiple VAs Changing the VA configuration Configuring VA networking Disabling Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for the vRanger VA

vRanger user interface (UI) overview

Main toolbar Status Bar

My Inventory view

My Inventory pane Working Inventory pane

My Jobs view

My Jobs pane Activity pane

My Repositories view

My Repositories pane Working Repository pane

My Reports view

My Reports toolbar My Reports pane Working Reports pane

Backup overview

Virtual machine (VM) backup Physical machine backup

Reviewing backup transport options

VMware backup transport options Transport selection order: VM backup Hyper-V backup transport options Physical backup transport options

Determining application consistency

Application consistency for virtual backups Application consistency for physical backups

Understanding retention policies and space-saving technologies Performing optional configurations

Enabling VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Adding a custom backup group Configuring VSS tools for VMware VMs

Configuring a backup job

Starting the Backup Wizard Excluding VMs Including hard disks of physical machines or VMs Selecting a repository Selecting a backup data transport method for VMware machines Configuring backup options Selecting a Retention Policy Setting the recurrence schedule Configuring email notifications Starting the backup job

The vRanger restore process

Full restore Restoring a file Restoring from a manifest file

Performing a full restore for VMware VMs

Starting the restore job

Performing a full restore for Hyper-V® VMs Performing a full restore for VMware vApps Performing a full restore of a physical machine

Starting the restore job

Performing an FLR on Windows

Performing an FLR using Catalog Search Performing a manual FLR

Performing an FLR on Linux

Linux FLR limitations

Restoring from manifest

Performing a full restore from manifest for VMware VMs Performing a full restore from manifest for Hyper-V VMs Performing a full restore from manifest for a physical machine Performing FLR from manifest

Understanding replication of VMs

How replication works

Replication modes

Replication with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Differential replication Configuring transport failover options Pre-seeding replication jobs

Creating a replication job

Selecting the source VM Selecting a target host Selecting the replication mode Selecting replication network mapping Selecting hard disks Selecting replication options Setting the recurrence schedule Configuring email notifications Starting the replication job

Using replication failover

Performing Test Failover with networking disabled Performing Test Failover with networking enabled Performing a failover Performing failback

About vRanger reports Generating a report using the Report Wizard

Integrating vRanger: overview

Performing vRanger sweep-to-tape using Quest NetVault Backup Using deduplication with Quest NetVault SmartDisk and vRanger Using Data Domain and vRanger repositories

Monitoring vRanger

About event monitoring configurations

vRanger Console overview Configuring the vRanger Console vRanger vAPI Cmdlets

Inventory management Configuration Job management Repositories Backup Restore Replication Cmdlet help

Add-BackupGroupEntity Add-BackupJobTemplate Add-CIFSRepository Add-DdbReplicationRepository Add-DdbRepository Add-EsxHost Add-HypervCluster Add-HypervHost Add-HypervRestoreJobTemplate Add-NFSRepository Add-NVSDRepository Add-PhysicalMachine Add-RdaRepository Add-ReplicationJobTemplate Add-RestoreFromManifestJobTemplate Add-RestoreJobTemplate Add-VirtualAppforLinuxFLR Add-VirtualAppforLinuxFLRVA Add-VirtualCenter Disable-Job Dismount-LinuxVolume Enable-Job Get-AddressBook Get-BackupGroupEntity Get-CatalogSearchData Get-CatalogStatus Get-ConfigOption Get-Connection Get-CurrentTemplateVersionID Get-Datastore Get-GlobalTransportFailover Get-InventoryEntity Get-IsInventoryRefreshing Get-Job Get-JobTemplate Get-MonitorLog Get-Network Get-PhysicalMachineDiskMap Get-Repository Get-RepositoryJob Get-RepositorySavePoint Get-RestoreDiskMap Get-SavepointDisk Get-SavepointManifest Get-Savepoints Get-TransportFailover Get-VirtualApplianceConfig Get-VirtualApplianceDeploymentStatus Get-VirtualApplianceReconfigStatus Get-VirtualMachinesUnderInventory Get-VmDisk Get-VMDKVolume Install-VirtualAppliance Mount-LinuxVolume New-BackupFlag New-BackupGroupMember New-Daily Schedule New-EmailAddress New-IntervalSchedule New-MonthlySchedule New-ReplicationFlag New-RestoreFlag New-SMTPServer New-TransportConfiguration New-VirtualAppliance New-WeeklySchedule New-YearlySchedule Remove-AllMount Remove-BackupGroupEntity Remove-BackupGroupMember Remove-Catalog Remove-DdbStorageUnit Remove-JobTemplate Remove-LinuxVolume Remove-Repository Remove-SavePoint Remove-VirtualAppliance Remove-VirtualApplianceConfiguration Run-JobsNow Run-ReplicationFailover Run-ResumeReplicationFailover Run-TestReplicationFailover Set-Cataloging Set-CBTonVM Set-LinuxVolume Set-MountPath Set-Resources Stop-vRangerJob Update-BackupJobTemplate Update-GlobalTransportFailover Update-HypervRestoreJobTemplate Update-Inventory Update-ReplicationJobTemplate Update-RestoreJobTemplate Update-VirtualAppliance Update-VirtualApplianceConfiguration

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vRanger 7.8 - User Guide

Before installing

Downloading an evaluation copy of vRanger

Installing vRanger

Configuration overview