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The vRanger virtual appliance is used for Replication, Linux file level restores, and optionally backups & restores,
For Linux file level restores the virtual appliance is a requirement without the virtual appliance to read through the Linux file system backups Linux file level restores are not possible.
For Replication the virtual appliance adds replication capability to a ESXi host since ESXi hosts do not have a Service Console the virtual appliance provide Service Console functionality to allow data to be transferred between hosts. ESXi base replication is not possible without the virtual appliance. With ESX based replication if the source and target hosts are both ESX the virtual appliance is not needed unless you want to have the virtual appliance perform the replication processing and not the service console of the host.
For backups the virtual appliance provides network and Lan-free(HotAdd) based backups and allows you to distribute the job processing to separate virtual appliances. Which in return allows a single vRanger machine to manage multiple virtual appliances and can allow you to perform more backup jobs than a single vRanger machine might have been able to on it's own.
For restores the virtual appliance provides network and Lan-free(HotAdd) based restores and allows you to distribute the job processing to separate virtual appliances. Which in return allows a single vRanger machine to manage multiple virtual appliances and can allow you to perform more restore jobs than a single vRanger machine might have been able to on it's own.
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Created on: 5/16/2012 Last Update on: 5/7/2023
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