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vRanger 7.8.4 - 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

Supported Hyper-V versions

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

Table 7. 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 Windows Server 2019 Full Server
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
Support for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)¹	Windows Server 2019 Full Server

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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is supported in virtual environments only.

Supported platforms for physical machine backup

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

Table 8. 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
Windows Server 2019	x64

Supported virtual appliance (VA) versions

vRanger 7.8.4 supports VA 7.6.3 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

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

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