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vRanger 7.7.1 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Table of Contents  

Introduction

Key benefits Major feature list Target audience Recommended additional reading

Before you install

Trial license

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

Using vSphere 5.5 or later

System requirements and compatibility

Minimum hardware requirements

Minimum hardware requirements

: physical machine : 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 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

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FLR: Linux

System requirements and compatibility > Supported platforms > FLR: Linux

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FLR: Linux

Review the following information to understand the functions and limitations of the Linux FLR feature.

•	Linux FLR requires the VA.

•	requires you to recover the Linux files to an intermediate Windows machine. When you recover Linux files to a Windows machine, you lose the file permissions.

•	The source VM properties need to show the operating system (OS) type as Linux. If this feature is not configured properly, cannot identify the savepoint as a Linux VM.

•	For a list of supported file systems, see Supported disk types and file systems.

Configuration requirements

System requirements and compatibility > Configuration requirements

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Configuration requirements

HotAdd disk requirements

When using the HotAdd transport, the following disk restrictions and requirements apply.

•	HotAdd only works on SCSI disks. IDE disks and vRDMs are not supported.

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HotAdd cannot be used if the VMFS block size of the datastore containing the VM folder for the target VM does not match the VMFS block size of the datastore containing the VM. For example, if you back up a virtual disk on a datastore with 1 MB blocks, the proxy must also be on a datastore with 1 MB blocks.

Password security setting policy

System requirements and compatibility > Configuration requirements > Password security setting policy

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Password security setting policy

Weak passwords compromise system security. When you create and update passwords in , follow as many of these guidelines as your environment allows:

•	A password should not include a significant portion of a user or account name. A password should be at least six characters long and should contain several characters from these categories:

▪	Uppercase letters in English — A to Z

▪	Lowercase letters in English — a to z

▪	Digits — 0 to 9

▪	Non-alphabetic characters — for example, $, !, #, %

Port requirements

System requirements and compatibility > Configuration requirements > Port requirements

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Port requirements

The following table lists the ports used by each of the components.

 

Table 11. Ports

Port number	Protocol	Direction
22	TCP	to VMware ESXi Host to VA VA to VA
53	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to DNS Server
137	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository
137	UDP	/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository
138	UDP	/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository
139	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository
443	TCP	and VA to ESXi hosts and VA to VMware vCenter
445	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository to VA
902	TCP	to Hosts VA to Hosts
2049	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository
2049	UDP	/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository
37453	TCP	/VA/ESXi Host to Repository
10011	TCP	RDA Control Channel
11000	TCP	RDA Data Channel
51000	TCP	Physical Backup: to physical server

Additional port requirements

•	For the VA designated for Linux FLR, the firewall must be configured to allow ICMP (ping) packets.

•	For physical backups to function correctly, the firewall must be configured to allow WMI connections.

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