vRanger 7.8 - Release Notes

Quest® vRanger® 7.8

Quest® vRanger® 7.8

Release Notes

November 2019

These release notes provide information about the Quest® vRanger® release.

About this release

vRanger Backup & Replication is the market-leading backup, recovery, and backup-management solution for VMware® and Hyper-V® virtual environments. vRanger automatically discovers new virtual machines (VMs), reduces backup windows, provides smarter backup options, and offers more scalability through its agent-less architecture and features while using fewer resources.

vRanger capabilities:

•	Performs incremental, differential, or full image backups of virtual and physical machines.

•	Restores the entire machine or specific files.

•	Manages disaster recovery strategies and protects critical data in virtual environments.

•	Replicates VMs to more than one destination, which lets you accomplish multiple high-availability and disaster recovery objectives based on your specific needs.

vRanger 7.8 is a maintenance release with minor enhancements and defect resolutions. See Enhancements and Resolved issues for more detailed information.

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements implemented in vRanger 7.8.

Table 1. General enhancements

Enhancement

Support for VMware vSphere encrypted virtual machines

Support for VMware 6.7 update 2 and update 3

Support for VM hardware version 15

Support for VMware VASA 3.0

Support for Microsoft Hyper-V RCT differentials

Support for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in virtual environments.

Resolved issues

The table below lists the defects resolved in this release of vRanger:

 

Table 2. Resolved issues

Issue description	Issue ID
For file level recovery, vRanger is resolving repository using the IP rather than the hostname	VR-55
With vRanger 7.2.1 the backups against a Virtual Center server with port 443 changed to port 444 fail	VR-80
When vRanger is installed on VMware ESXi 6.5u2, the vRanger VM goes into invalid state after performing backup	VR-797
vRanger configuration files are not retained when using the vRanger installer to Modify or Repair the installation.	VR-849
NFS repositories do not show accurate free space information	VR-967
Successfully installing vRanger 7.7.1 in Japanese displays message "uninstall completed normally"	VR-1087
During replication tasks, the NIC inclusion setting is not retained.	VR-1088
When vRanger is upgrade to version 7.8, the vRanger virtual appliances are not visible in the UI.	VR-1265
When clicking on My Repositories view, the vRanger UI will go into an unresponsive state.	VR-1266