Quest vRanger
Installation/Upgrade Guide
INTRODUCTION
Target Audience
Recommended Additional Reading
About Quest Software
Contacting Quest Software
1.1.0
GUIDE
Major Feature List
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Key Benefits
Chapter 1:
vRanger - At a Glance
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Contacting Quest Support
vRanger - At a Glance
vRanger is the market-leading backup, recovery and backup management solution for virtual
environments. Featuring a new platform technology, vRanger reduces the backup window, provides
smarter backup options, and offers more scalability features while using fewer resources.
vRanger Capabilities:
Quickly restores the entire virtual machine or just specific files.
Manages disaster recovery strategies and protects critical data in virtual environments.
1.2.0
Performs incremental, differential or full image backups of virtual machines.
Offers the ability to replicate virtual machines to more than one destination, thus allowing users
to accomplish multiple High Availability and Disaster Recovery objectives based on their
specific needs.
Key Benefits
Exploits vSphere 5 performance and scalability enhancements
Provides high-speed, resource-efficient backup, replication and recovery of virtual machine
(VM) images
Provides high-speed backup and recovery of physical servers.
Delivers up to 90 percent backup storage savings when paired with NetVault SmartDisk® vRanger Edition
Includes capability for distributed segment processing through DD Boost™ support for faster
backups to EMC® Data Domain® systems
Optional deployment as a low-resource consumption Virtual Appliance (VA) for low-impact
scalability
Offers VA cluster support and easy VA deployment through a wizard
Improves VM backup and recovery performance with HotAdd support
Optimizes use of critical resources in virtual environments, including hypervisor hosts, networks
and storage
Protects real-world VM deployments with multiple hosts and hundreds of VMs or more
Ensures archive integrity
Simplifies portability with image backup files
Delivers proven reliability
Provides unmatched performance and scalability