How to force Ranger to perform a Full backup on a particular day of the week
I was looking for a solution with the minimum impact and the following one seems to be working pretty well.First of all, this is not an official approach, Developers are working on this feature and...
View ArticleSlow response in My Jobs view
Ranger GUI is lagging, not showing actual job state. I tried to trace events in vSphere Client, Ranger GUI and repository share at the same time. I launched some backup job. Ranger shows it as queued...
View ArticleEdit email notification - vRanger 5
hello, is there a way to edit the email notification. primary the subject line of an vRanger Backup & Replication Backup Job email? regards
View ArticlePurge DB T-SQL script
Non-official script! Provided on 'as-is' basis.It is recommended to have vRangerPro DB backup before running the script! Here you can find attached T-SQL script to purge records from DB.Ideally script...
View ArticleQuest Catalog Service did not respond
We have updated vRanger to the latest version (5.5) and we have a problem with the Quest Catalog Service. After i updated vRanger the catalog service didnt started.When i try to start the service i got...
View ArticleProblems with vRanger 5.5 and ESXi 5.1 VM with virtual Hardware Version vmx-09?
Hi Everyone, I have a short Question about vRanger 5.5 and the new VMware ESXi 5.1 Servers. I have one new ESXi 5.1 Server and migrated a VM on this new System. I also upgraded the Hardware of the VM...
View ArticleWill vRanger ever scale up to large environments?
As I understand vRanger, a single instance will typically support 250 VMs, more or less. Are there any plans to scale it up so that it can handle more than that? What about a single client that can...
View ArticleRestore VM to new system without vRanger from vmdk.var archive file?
Hi, I have a vRanger backup from a ESX4 VM that I wish to restore to a completely different system and not located in anything managed or accessible by the vRanger that did the backup. Is it possible...
View ArticleError When Doing Full Backup
I did a full backup of a test VM the other night and it worked great and I was able to restore it. I tried one of our production servers next and I got the below email when it failed. I'm not sure if...
View ArticleRestore from V3 Vranger
I am currently running on V5.2.0 and would like to restore a VM which was originally backed up using V3 Vranger. How can i do it ? Thanks
View ArticleBackup job works on full tasks but fails on incrementals
Hello, I have an issue with the backup of a virtual machine with vRanger 6.0.2. The strange part is that the first task (the complete one) always works, but then all tasks (incremental ones) of the job...
View ArticleSnapshot removal taking way longer in vRanger 6.0.2 then vReplicator 3
I recently upgraded from vReplicator 3 to vRanger 6.0.2 (or rather, stood up new service and created new jobs). Ever since, the snapshot removal process takes at least 3x as long as it used to. As a...
View ArticlevRanger 6.0.1 w/ vSphere 5.1 fails to consolidate VMs randomly
We run a vRanger 6.0.1 nightly job to back up approximately 180 VMs residing across 4 vSphere 5.1 hosts. Every morning there are several VMs in vCenter that show up with the "virtual machine disks...
View ArticleBackup Jobs fail - save points
Hello, we are currently using vRanger 5.3.1. Our backups are saved into a SAN drive. Since some days, our SAN is becoming slower, but not significantly. The only service we are facing trouble is...
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Fehlermeldung beim Backup
Hallo zusammen, Habe beim Backup eines VM's folgende Meldung: An internal error occurred during execution, please contact Quest support if the error persists. Error Message: API Call failed with...
View ArticleHow to Increase Timeout for vRanger?
After downgrading upgrading from vSphere ESX4.1u2 to ESXi 5.0 we get a performance problems and snapshot problems all over the place.A lot of VM now needs now some more time for creating a snapshot and...
View ArticleThe inventory node [vmserver] [vm-821] is on a disconnected VC:
Hi all. What does the message 'The inventory node myvm [vm-821] is on a disconnected VC: myvcserver' mean ? Only 3 out of 20 virtual machines are affected. Have you any idea ? Thanks
View ArticlevRanger running on Windows Server 2012
Does vRanger 6.0.2 support installation on Windows 2012? The Installation guide support matrix seems to indicate only supporting up to 2008 R2, but my initial googling on the question shows that all of...
View Article6.1 release details?
Hi Is there any details of new features for vRanger 6.1? and a release date? Thanks
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