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vRanger 7.8.6 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Introduction Before you install System requirements and compatibility Installing vRanger Upgrading vRanger

Configuration requirements

HotAdd disk requirements

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

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

Weak passwords compromise system security. When you create and update passwords in vRanger, 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

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

 
Table 11. Ports
Port number
Protocol
Direction

22

TCP

vRanger to VMware® ESXi™ Host

vRanger to VA

VA to VA

53

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to DNS Server

135

TCP

vRanger server to guest VM. Used for push install of vRanger VSS tools.

137

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

137

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

138

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

139

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

443

TCP

vRanger and VA to ESXi hosts

vRanger and VA to VMware® vCenter™

445

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to CIFS Repository

vRanger to VA

445

TCP

vRanger server to guest VM. Used for push install of vRanger VSS tools.

902

TCP

vRanger to Hosts

VA to Hosts

2049

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository

2049

UDP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NFS Repository

37453

TCP

vRanger/VA/ESXi Host to NetVault SmartDisk Repository

10011

TCP

RDA Control Channel

11000

TCP

RDA Data Channel

49152-65535

(Dynamic Port Range)

TCP

vRanger server to guest VM. Used for push install of vRanger VSS tools.

51000

TCP

Physical Backup: vRanger 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.

Compatibility with other applications

vRanger can be used with various applications to provide additional functionality. The following table summarizes which applications are supported by the most recent versions of vRanger.

 
Table 12. Compatibility
Company
Application
Application version
vRanger version
Support details
7.6.3
7.6.4
7.6.5
7.6.6
7.7
7.7.1
7.8

Quest

NetVault SmartDisk

2.0.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.0

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.4.5

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

QoreStor

For QoreStor and vRanger interoperability information, please refer to the QoreStor Interoperability Guide.

EMC®

DD OS1

5.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.7

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

6.0

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

6.1

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

6.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

7.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

7.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

7.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

1
Data Domain® operating system

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