Vizioncore EsxRanger Pro is a Windows application for making backups of virtual machines (VMs) hosted on VMware's high-end ESX Server and managed using VMware's VirtualCenter.
EsxRanger makes hot-backups, so it can back up a running VM. The main limitation is that it puts those backups on disk storage devices, so firms that want to make backups to tape would need more tools to copy the EsxRanger backups to tape.
EsxRanger makes backups directly to any file system mounted on the ESX Server system's console operating system, including network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and native Linux file systems. It can also back up to the Windows file systems of the PC it is running on. EsxRanger requires a system running Windows 2000 or later that is also running Microsoft's .Net Framework 1.1 or later. We installed it under Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server in less than five minutes.
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