Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro 3.2 – From Backup to P2V

Vizioncore has released an updated version of its industry recognized backup and restore solution – vRanger Pro 3.2, an agent-less backup tool that can provide a consistent backup of running VMs. The product is now enabled with a VSS driver which allows vRanger Pro to provide transactional consistency in backups and restores.

One of the interesting new features found in vRanger Pro 3.2 is its P2V D/R capability. Leveraging proven technology, vRanger allows customers to apply the same benefits of vRanger backup and restore technology to physical machines, and without agents or any disruption to the physical machine.   

Each install of vRanger Pro 3.2 includes a P2V evaluation license good for three free P2V backups.

New features found in this release:

• VSS – vRanger Pro includes a VSS driver that utilizes Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service to pause application “writers”. This feature will enable quiescing of supported databases to provide a transactionally consistent backup image.
• P2V Disaster Recovery – Leveraging the P2V engine from vConverter, vRanger Pro provides a safe, reliable way to capture image-level backups of any physical Windows server. A backup job can be configured for a physical server in just a few clicks with no disruption to the source machine. This agent-less, reboot-free process provides the ultimate flexibility in configuring environments while maintaining the low RTO of image-level backups.
• Restore to Separate Datastores – VMware supports a common practice of splitting a Virtual Machine into two VMDK files (an OS file and a Data file perhaps), similar to partitioning a physical drive. Common practice for many organizations is to store these files in different locations, or datastores. vRanger Pro now supports the selection of separate datastores when restoring VMs with multiple VMDKs
• NoZip Restores – vRanger Pro now supports restoring from an uncompressed backup. This allows full integration with Data Domain deduplication solutions that will greatly reduce the amount of storage space required for backups.
• Enhanced Write Speeds – Using a proprietary driver, vRanger Pro has increased write speeds when backup up or restoring to VMFS. This will allow for shorter backup times, and enable a lower RTO by decreasing the time required to restore a backup.