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vRanger 7.8.6 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Table of Contents

Key benefits Major feature list Target audience Recommended additional reading

Before you install

Trial license Single license limitation

vRanger installation overview Installing the vRanger server

Available backup transports Installing vRanger in a virtual machine (VM)

Available transports HotAdd backups (VMs only) LAN backups Considerations for installing vRanger in a VM

Installing vRanger on a physical server

Available transports LAN-free backups (VM backups only) LAN backups Installing with other applications

Optimizing your network for backups

Installing the vRanger database

Database options Installing the databases

Sizing the catalog database

Installing the vRanger virtual appliance (VA)

VA usage Deployment locations

Creating a vRanger repository

Repository storage devices Bandwidth to repositories Repository size

Configuring vCenter permissions

System requirements and compatibility

Minimum hardware requirements

Minimum hardware requirements

vRanger: physical machine vRanger: virtual machine (VM) Requirements for physical backup and restore

Supported operating systems for installation

Additional required software

Supported SQL Server versions

Supported platforms

Supported vSphere versions

Equivalent version support policy vRanger and VM snapshots

Supported Hyper-V versions Supported platforms for physical machine backup Supported virtual appliance (VA) versions Supported disk types and file systems Supported disk types Supported file systems Feature-level requirements Standard backup, restore, and replication Physical backup and restore HotAdd File-level restore (FLR): Windows FLR: Linux

Configuration requirements

Password security setting policy Port requirements

Compatibility with other applications

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Installing vRanger

Installing vRanger

Entering vRanger service credentials Installing the vRanger database Entering vRanger database runtime credentials Installing the vRanger Catalog Service Completing the installation

Installing the vRanger Catalog Service later

Upgrading vRanger

Migrating content from an FTP or SFTP repository

Migrating content from an FTP or SFTP repository

Migrating content from an FTP or SFTP repository

vRanger editions

Supported upgrade paths

Backing up the vRanger database Upgrading a previous vRanger installation

Updating the VSS Tools

Upgrading the vRanger Database

Performing a database upgrade

Prerequisites Upgrading the database (32-bit SQL Server) Upgrading the database (64-bit SQL Server)

Upgrading the vRanger virtual appliance (VA)

Upgrading your VA

Maintaining your scratch disk Migrating your existing scratch disk

Upgrading a previous vReplicator installation

Minimum hardware requirements

System requirements and compatibility

Requirements for the vRanger machine

To maximize application performance, and to ensure error-free operation, you must ensure that the machine on which vRanger is installed meets the requirements as documented in this topic.

Requirements for the vRanger machine are divided among these topics:

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Minimum hardware requirements

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Supported operating systems for installation

Review each of these topics thoroughly before installing vRanger.


	NOTE: For LAN-free and HotAdd installation requirements, see Physical backup and restore.

Minimum hardware requirements

The minimum hardware requirements to run vRanger can vary widely based on several factors. Therefore, you should not do a large-scale implementation without first completing a scoping and sizing exercise.

vRanger: physical machine

The following describes the hardware recommendations for the vRanger physical machine:

Table 1. Requirements for a installing vRanger on a physical machine
CPU	Any combination equaling four cores of CPUs are recommended. Example one quad-core CPU; two dual-core CPUs.
RAM	4 GB RAM is required.
Storage	At least 4 GB free hard disk space on the vRanger machine.
HBA	For LAN-free, Quest recommends that you use two HBAs — one for read operations and one for writing.

vRanger: virtual machine (VM)

The following describes the hardware recommendations for using vRanger in a VM:

Table 2. Requirements for a installing vRanger on a virtual machine
CPU	Four vCPUs.
RAM	4 GB RAM is recommended.
Storage	At least 4 GB free hard disk space on the vRanger machine.

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