Quest vRanger
Installation/Upgrade Guide
vRanger Standard
vRanger Pro
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vReplicator
VA-Based Backup/Restore
X
Physical Machine Backup
X
Replication
X
X
CBT
X
X
ABM
LAN Free
X
X
X
X
(SAN)a
LAN Free (HotAdd)
X
X
Catalog
Windows File-level Recovery
X
X
X
Linux File-level Recovery
X
X
a. Note that in the vRanger UI, “LAN Free” is used to encompass both traditional LAN-Free (with vRanger on a physical proxy connected to your
Fibre SAN) and LAN-Free via HotAdd (with vRanger in a VM). Traditional LAN-Free operations are restricted to vRanger Pro licenses only.
vRanger Standard can still perform LAN-Free backups and restores via VMware’s HotAdd API.
For virtual machine backup, a license for vRanger controls the number of source CPUs that you can
configure for backup. For licensing purposes, a multi-core processor is counted as a single CPU. For
physical backup, each server protected consumes one physical backup license.
Note: Virtual and physical machine backup functions are licensed separately
2.1.2
Trial License
You may evaluate vRanger using the trial license included with the product. The trial provides
vRanger Pro functionality as described below:
Virtual Machine Backup: 30 CPUs for 30 days
Virtual Machine Replication: 30 CPUs for 30 days
Physical Machine Backup: 10 physical machines for 30 days
In order to continue using vRanger past the trial period, you must purchase a license and import the
new license key provided to you by Quest Software. If you do receive your license key, please visit
https://support.quest.com/LicenseKey.aspx.
2.1.2.a
Extended Trial Licenses
In some cases, it may be necessary to expand the scope of a trial license (add more CPUs for
replication for example), extend the duration of a trial, or test a new feature with an already licensed
version of vRanger. Starting with vRanger 6.1, you may add an extended trial license in order to
temporarily augment the duration or scope of your existing license.
When using an extended trial license, there are a few key points to remember:
Extended trial licenses make all “Pro” features available during the duration of the extended
trial. See the table in vRanger Licensing Levels for more information.
When an extended trial license expires, or is removed, the primary license will be applied.
2.1.3
When applying an extended license over an existing or trial license, the highest license count
will be used.
When applying an extended trial license, the list of licensed hosts and physical servers is not
maintained. When the extended trial license expires or is removed, you may need to reconfigure
host or server licensing to match your original configuration.
Single License Limitation
vRanger is available in three versions: vRanger SE, vRanger Pro, and vReplicator. Please note that
outside of an extended trial period (see Extended Trial Licenses for more information), only one