vRanger 7.7 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

vRanger and VM snapshots

vRanger and VM snapshots

The vRanger backup and replication functionality requires the ability to create a snapshot. In certain circumstances, the creation of VM snapshots is not supported by VMware®. In these cases, backup and replication of these VMs or disks is not possible. Some common examples are:

•	RDM Disks in physical compatibility mode

•	Disks in independent mode

•	Fault-tolerant VMs

 

NOTE: This list is not exhaustive. Any configuration in which snapshots are not supported by VMware, or not possible, is not supported by vRanger.

Supported vSAN and VVOL configurations

Supported vSAN and VVOL configurations

vRanger supports the following VMware® vSAN and VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) configurations :

 

Table 7. vSAN versions

vRanger versions	Datastore configurations
7.7	• vSAN 6.x on ESXi 6.x1 • VVOLs on ESXi 6.0, 6.5
7.6.x	• vSAN 6.x on ESXi 6.xa • VVOLs on ESXi 6.0, 6.5

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1

vSAN 6.7 Update 1 is not supported.

Supported Hyper-V versions

Supported Hyper-V versions

vRanger supports backup and restore operations against the following versions of Hyper-V® Server:

 

Table 8. Hyper-V versions

Component	Supported versions
Hyper-V Servers	• Windows Server 2012 Full Server and Server Core • Windows Server 2012 R2 Full Server and Server Core • Windows Server 2016 Full Server and Server Core
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)	• Windows Server 2012 Full Server and Server Core • Windows Server 2012 R2 Full Server and Server Core • Windows Server 2016 Full Server and Server Core

Supported platforms for physical machine backup

Supported platforms for physical machine backup

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

 

Table 9. 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