vRanger 7.6.3 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Supported virtual appliance (VA) versions

Supported virtual appliance (VA) versions

vRanger 7.6.3 supports VA 7.6.1 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

Supported disk types and file systems

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

Supported disk types

Supported disk types

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

 

Table 10. 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.

Supported file systems

Supported file systems

The following table details the support status of the listed file systems for the documented vRanger functions.

 

Table 11. Supported file systems

File system types	Backup and restore	Catalog	File-level restore (FLR)
Windows® virtual machines (VMs)
NTFS	Supported	Supported	Supported
FAT32	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
exFAT	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
ReFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported1
Windows physical machines
NTFS	Supported	Supported	Supported
FAT32	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
exFAT	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
ReFS	Supported	Not supported	Supporteda
Linux® virtual machines (VMs)
ext2	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ext3	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ext4	Supported	Not supported	Supported
JFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
XFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ReiserFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
LVM (one physical disk)	Supported	Not supported	Supported

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1

FLR supported for 2012 or later systems only when performing FLR on 2012 or newer systems.