What is esxRanger Professional?
esxRanger Professional represents a significant
investment in time and resources building on the core
technology of it's sister product esxRanger standard
edition. esxRanger Professional continues to raise the
bar for clients who standardize on VMware Virtual Center
to manage their VMware farm. esxRanger Professional will
continue to lead the way in establishing backup, restore
and disaster recovery standards for VMware ESX Server
users. esxRanger standard edition will continue to
provide value at the lowest possible price to those who
need a reliable, feature rich, proven and supported
alternative solution to complex scripting. While
esxRanger standard edition is not Virtual Center aware,
it is compatible with ESX Servers managed by Virtual
Center and is used buy hundreds of clients who use
Virtual Center today.
esxRanger Professional runs on a windows host and can be
scheduled to perform online hot backups of guest
operating systems on VMware ESX Server. esxRanger
Professional is the perfect solution for sending VM's
local or across the WAN because it compresses the disks
before sending them to the destination server. There are
NO Agents needed on the ESX Servers or the guest
operating systems.
Virtual Center Awareness
esxRanger Pro is Virtual Center aware! esxRanger Pro
will be able to find a VM for backup no matter where the
VM is located. esxRanger Professional will talk to
Virtual Center for this information. This will also
allow the backup of a folder in Virtual Center. Once
you're able to setup a folder of VM's for backup, you
can schedule a group of VM's to run on their own backup
schedule no matter where the VM's are located.
Reporting esxRanger Professional has an integrated
database back end! esxRanger Professional will record IP
addresses of the guest, backup times, compression ratio
and what VM's are located on what LUN's (for restoring
the appropriate VM's that were lost if a LUN was lost).
All this information will have the ability to be queried
and report ran from the database.
Advanced Rules Engine
A runtime rules engine has been added to achieve maximum
performance during the backup process with maximum
limits on the number of simultaneous VM's that will be
backed up per Farm, per ESX Server and per VMFS volume.
The objective is to schedule the whole ESX Server farm
for backup using one command and let esxRanger choose
the backup order sequence according to the rules you set
in the GUI.
Additional
esxRanger Professional Features
esxRanger runs from a Windows host
Virtual Center integration
No scripting
Completely automated
Send backups to Linux or Windows hosts
Central management
GUI interface
High reliability
Point and click administration
Significant compression options
No client needed on ESX Server
esxRanger runs from a Windows host
