vRanger 7.8 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Supported platforms for physical machine backup

vRanger supports backup and restore operations against the following operating systems:

 

Table 8. Supported platforms

Operating system	Bit level
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and above	x64
Windows Server 2012	x64
Windows Server 2012 R2	x64
Windows Server 2016	x64
Windows Server 2019	x64

 

Supported virtual appliance (VA) versions

vRanger 7.8 supports VA 7.6.3 or later.

 

IMPORTANT: For more information on upgrading your virtual appliance to the latest version, see Upgrading the vRanger virtual appliance (VA).

 

Supported disk types and file systems

The following topics list the disk types and file systems supported by vRanger.

Supported disk types

The following table details the support status of the listed disk types for the documented vRanger functions.

 

Table 9. Supported disk types

Disk types	Backup and restore	Catalog	File-level restore (FLR)
Windows® virtual machines (VMs)
MBR	Supported	Supported	Supported
GPT	Supported	Supported	Supported1
Dynamic	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Windows physical machines
MBR	Supported	Supported	Supported
GPT	Supported	Supported	Supporteda
Dynamic	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Linux® virtual machines (VMs)2
LVM	Supported	Not supported	Supported
MBR	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
GPT	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Dynamic	Supported	Not supported	Not supported

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1

FLR supported for 2012 or later systems only when performing FLR on 2012 or newer systems. Older systems may not show data on GPT disks.

2

FLR for Hyper-V® Linux VMs is not supported.