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vRanger 7.8.5 - 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 platforms

The following topics list the platforms and operating systems supported for backup, restore, and replication operations.

Supported vSphere versions

vRanger supports backup, restore, and replication operations against the following versions of VMware® Infrastructure:

Table 6. vSphere versions

Supported versions

VMware® ESXi™

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NOTE: ESXi replication requires the use of the vRanger virtual appliance (VA).

VMware® vCenter™

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VMware® vSphere® license

vRanger supports all vSphere editions except for the free versions of ESXi. The free versions do not provide the necessary APIs for vRanger to function.

Equivalent version support policy

In addition to what is listed in this document, vRanger supports VMware® versions where the following criteria have been met:


	NOTE: The naming convention used in this policy topic follows the standard product release version scheme of Major.Minor.Update.Patch.

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VMware updates or patches to a supported major or minor release are also supported, unless otherwise stated.

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Major or minor versions that are newer than what is listed in this documentation are not supported and require a separate qualification effort, unless otherwise stated.

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:

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RDM Disks in physical compatibility mode

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Disks in independent mode

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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.

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