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Chapter 1
Introduction to this Guide
1.3.0
Comes with world-class service and support
Major Feature List
VMware ESX and ESXi Support — Provides a wide range of backup and recovery and
disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for VMware virtual infrastructures.
Virtual Appliance (VA) Architecture — Through centralized and wizard-driven deployment
and administration from the vRanger server, delivers highly scalable and cost effective
distributed data handling and throughput through VAs.
Disk-to-Disk Backup and Deduplication — Offers a NetVault SmartDisk - vRanger Edition
add on for enterprise-class deduplication that reduces backup storage footprints by up to 90
percent.
EMC Data Domain Boost Support — Includes distributed segment processing through DD
Boost for significantly faster backups to Data Domain systems.
VMware HotAdd Support — Performs LAN-free backups with vRanger installed inside a VM
and from the vRanger VA. In addition, HotAdd accelerates network backups of ESXi.
Patented Active Block Mapping (ABM)— Eliminates inactive and white space blocks from
protected Windows virtual machines to speed backup, replication, and recovery jobs as well as
reduce network and storage requirements.
Instant File-Level Recovery for Windows and Linux — Enables you to quickly restore a
single file from a backup image in the repository through a one-step process.
Native, Full Catalog Capability, patent-pending — Provides native, full catalog of every
image in the backup repository, enabling immediate identification of available recovery
positions, with one-click restore. Wildcard scanning feature quickly locates backup repository
files to be restored.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-256 — Secures protected images block-by-block on
the VMware host as they’re read so they’re also secure over the network and in the backup
repository.
Synthetic Recovery — Delivers single-pass restore, reading each required block only one time
from multiple full, incremental and differential backup images in the repository for the fastest,
most efficient results.
vMotion and Storage vMotion Support — vSphere 5 vMotion support ensures vRanger
automatically protects VMs as they move from one host to another, even when backup jobs are
running. It also ensures vRanger follows VM storage disks when they are relocated to different
data stores; locks VM storage disks when vRanger accesses the disks during a job.
Advanced Savepoint Management — Allows you to manage and use multiple point-in-time
copies of backup and replica images for precise image, file, and object restores.
1.4.0
VMware ReadyTM Certified for vSphere 5 — Ensures reliable, safe, and scalable operation
with vSphere 5.
Dynamic Resource Management — Optimizes real-time use of critical resources; ensures
efficiency and that jobs complete faster without exceeding resource capacity.
Target Audience
This guide is intended for backup administrators and other technical personnel who are responsible
for designing and implementing a backup strategy for the organization. A good understanding of the
operating system (OS) on which vRanger is running is assumed.
1.5.0
Recommended Additional Reading
The following documentation is also available:
vRanger User’s Guide - This guide describes how to configure and work with vRanger.