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vRanger 7.8.5 - Integration Guide for DR Series Disk Backup Appliance

Getting started Understanding the Quest DR Series Installing and configuring your Quest DR Series Installing vRanger Maintaining your DR Series appliance

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.

Requirements for physical backup and restore

When backing up from and restoring to a physical server, vRanger uses a client run on that server to perform backup and restore operations. To process the backup workload effectively, the physical server must meet the following requirements:

 
Table 3. Requirements for physical backup and restore

CPU

Any combination equaling four cores of CPUs are recommended. Example one quad-core CPU; two dual-core CPUs.

RAM

2 GB RAM is required.

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