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Thank you for being a valued Commvault customer and advocate over the years and partnering with us through continued innovation and transformation. Your insights and experience are very important to us. Please take a few minutes to share your feedback with us via this short survey. Commvault has partnered with UserEvidence, an independent research firm, to collect insights. You may have seen or replied to one of our other surveys focused on a specific workload or use case. Through this broader customer survey, we want to understand more about your overall experience as a customer or end user of Commvault, as well as your perspective on cyber recovery and resilience. As a token of our appreciation, upon completing the survey, all eligible respondents will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a $500 Amazon gift card from UserEvidence. Thank you once again for your time and for being an integral part of the Commvault customer community. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

1 hour ago

nickyBit

Self-Hosted Q&A

Need Tips for Reducing AD Dependence in Commvault Setup

Hey all,Got some questions around tightening up security in our Commvault setup, especially by reducing reliance on AD. A customer of ours wants to limit exposure, so looking for some practical advice if anyone’s tackled this before. Here’s what we’re thinking: Separating from AD-Connected vCenter: If we pull Commvault away from an AD-connected vCenter, any gotchas or issues we should watch out for? Trying to keep everything functional while reducing risk. Dropping AD for Authentication: They want Commvault running on local creds instead of AD. If anyone’s switched from AD to local auth, were there any surprises or smooth enough? Taking Media Agents Off AD: If we decide to remove the Media Agents from AD, what kind of trouble (if any) are we walking into? Making Backups Immutable: They’re keen on having backups that can’t be deleted or messed with until a set expiry. Any tips for setting up immutability in Commvault that actually works? Locking Down Admin Access: Finally, only

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1 hour ago

gary mcneelyByte

Self-Hosted Q&A

Command center client description

Question:How do I view the description of my clients from the Command center, just like I can when logging in the the java console ?

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2 hours ago

ErickORBit

Storage and Deduplication

Out of space. How to find out why I am using up so much space.

Ok, gonna post out here because I’m not sure where to go. I’ve logged a ticket, but I don’t think customer support is going to help me find out why all of our space is getting sucked up.First, thanks for reading.We are completely out of space and I have no idea where to start troubleshooting why. We went to the Metallic over a year ago for auxiliary copies (primaries are stored on location) and quickly used up our 45TB of space. 2 months ago, we purchased another 10TB and that is now gone as well.I just cant seem to find a process for troubleshooting. Could it be we are not reclaiming space? Are the backups not set correctly and doing a full every time? What jobs are taking the most space. I run some reports, but they are often just a wall of text that I can’t make heads nor tails out of.Anyway, I’m not helpless. I can follow some steps, but I don even know where to begin. I’ve only been around CV for a couple of years. But have a little experience with Veeam and Rubik. I’m used to 6 i

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5 hours ago

skoomerByte

Self-Hosted Q&A

Are NetApp Tamperprrof Snapshots supported?

Hi guys, one quick question.NetApp offers the feature to lock Snapshots to prevent deletion of it without the need of an SnapLock Aggregate. The feature is called “Tamperprrof Snapshot”.https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/snaplock/snapshot-lock-concept.html?q=TamperproofIs this feature supportet by Commvault?Could Commvault handle/manage the retention/lock of the snapshots on the ONTAP-level?For primay snap and snapvault copies.If not, what would be the best solution to keep the snapshots safe from deletion → SnapLock? RegardsJulian

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6 hours ago

JPMacKayBit

Share Best Practices

Best Practices PureStore NFS data protection

I have a PureStorage NAS array. At the moment it’s carrying about 200Tb of video files. By the way if you ever heard that video files do not deduplicate vary well then I can confirm that. Our video is extremely repetitive. It’s camera footage of the same scene over and over. It’s not like a movie or anything like that, it’s more like endless footage of a conveyor belt for hours and hours. So even incredibly boring video images of the same thing does not deduplicate. Our deduplication rate on this PureStore device is basically zero.But that aside, i need to back it up. It’s all NFS exports that our Linux systems access. What is Commvault’s prescribed method for this? Do we dedicate a Linux host to the task and then backup the mount point on the Linux host? Or is there a better way?

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7 hours ago

DUO-CSRByte

Virtualization and Containers

How to delete month and year backups

Friends, We have a change of retention for the backup data of a set of VM backups: we don’t need the month and year backups anymore.The retention was never changed within our Plans, but we only stopped to make the monthly and yearly backups, so it’s not changing the aging process, because the existing month and yearly backups will stay with their current duration. Now we want to delete these monthly and yearly backups, but I can’t find a how...We prefer to do this via Rest-API calls if possible, as we speak about a lot of VM…. Can anyone help us with this? Thanks in advance, Maurice

7 hours ago

Chet LBit

Share Best Practices

Question on backup copies

Is there a way, additional setting or something like that, that could limit the number of jobs a backup copy workflow submits at one time? Running IntelliSnap on NetApp and when all of the copies kick off at once things get overloaded. Just wondering if there is a way to limit it. I know you can when you submit it manually, but the automated ones run max number of jobs.

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8 hours ago

SSPByte

Getting Started

Commcell Console Java GUI

We are trying to access the Commcell JAVA GUI from the outside Comm server. From the client we are able to download the galaxy.jnlp and launch. During the login we are getting the error message unable to connect to Commcell. Is there any specific ports need to be opened at Firewall except 80 and 81?

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11 hours ago

elizabetaByte

Self-Hosted Q&A

What is the difference between Virtual Operating Instances and Protected Virtual Machines?

Hello,In may license report there is number of Virtual Operating Instances and Protected Virtual Machines? What is the difference between them?Best regards,Elizabeta

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14 hours ago

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nickyBit

Self-Hosted Q&A

Need Tips for Reducing AD Dependence in Commvault Setup

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1 hour ago

ErickORBit

Storage and Deduplication

Out of space. How to find out why I am using up so much space.

292

5 hours ago

JPMacKayBit

Share Best Practices

Best Practices PureStore NFS data protection

151

7 hours ago

DUO-CSRByte

Virtualization and Containers

How to delete month and year backups

7 hours ago

Chet LBit

Share Best Practices

Question on backup copies

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8 hours ago

SSPByte

Getting Started

Commcell Console Java GUI

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11 hours ago

elizabetaByte

Self-Hosted Q&A

What is the difference between Virtual Operating Instances and Protected Virtual Machines?

Hello,In may license report there is number of Virtual Operating Instances and Protected Virtual Machines? What is the difference between them?Best regards,Elizabeta

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14 hours ago

MenteeByte

Share Best Practices

Migrating Exchange MBX to O365

Hello Team, We have on-Prem Exch 2019 and we decided to move o365.Do we have any best approach to use commvault to perform migration of Exch MBX to o365.Note: We use Exch DB agent to backup on-prem and no mbx agent configured.

when i try login to my commcell console i get this massage » Use of CommCell Console requires authorization for new deployments starting from Platform release 2024. For more information https://kb.commvault.com/article/82051 » and my installation is all in one and after installation i append tha commcell console package on the same server so i can’t login to commcell console locally i only can with web console and command center

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1 day ago

FeRoxByte

Storage and Deduplication

Questions about IntelliSnap and auxiliary copies over SAN

Hello everyone,We still have some questions regarding IntelliSnap. I’d like to confirm if auxiliary copies made with IntelliSnap always use SAN and what requirements are needed to enable this functionality.We appreciate your assistance. 🥺🙏🏽Thanks in advance!

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