Commvault Cloud Topics

Is there any way to specify within a VM Group an affinity for certain access nodes for certain backup types? I am using Auto transport mode because most of my VM’s can utilize my Windows MediaAgent VM’s for HotAdd, however a few of them need to fall back on NBD. When they do NBD via our HSX nodes, they get great throughput and the jobs finish quickly. However, they are often selecting the Windows MediaAgent VM’s for NBD and the throughput is abysmal, causing the jobs to take 5-7 hours longer than they should to complete.Is there any way to control this within the VM Group? If not, has CommVault ever considered adding access node affinity/anti-affinity as a feature? Or perhaps modify the access node selection logic to reference the throughput/runtime of past jobs and realize that selecting incredibly slow access nodes for NBD is not a good idea?

Any chance to run pre script and post script for Azure VM Intellisnap? If yes, which script language supported by Commvault?

Hi Vaulters, This is a topic in which I already created multiple threads and read a lot of them here, but still confuses me, it’s still a bit confusing, on how the process may be implemented in the right way. Basically, we wonder how WORM can be implemented on a Disk storage type library which has WORM capabilities.There are tons of topics regarding cloud storage, but wonder how the process works with On-prem Disk libraries. We are seeing that, enabling the WORM from storage side may increase the BET to 2x to 3x.Would there be a DDB sealing in case of a disk library …etc. ? We would love to get a simplified overview on how the implementation could look like and how the pruning would work in this case. All your advices are welcomed. Regards. 

Hi Vaulters, We have a new CV platform that will be deployed soon, the Infra that will be backed up is all virtual based on VMware 6.7. Regarding design, we are checking which transport mode is the most suitable in our case, and as of now, since the VMs are hosted on datastores residing on a Storage Disk Array, it looks like SAN mode is the most efficient way to back up our VMs. Can anyone give us the right steps to implement this ? A step-by-step procedure, since we couldn’t retrieve this on the documentation. We are also looking for HotAdd transport mode, which also seems feasible in our case.Overall, what are the pros and cons of each tranport mode (SAN and HotAdd) ? For example, we read that restore performance is poor on SAN mode when VM disks are thin. Kind regards. 

Hello everyone, Recently I configured the SSO in Commvault, with Windows Active Directory Domain. Users can login in the Commcell perfectly, but when I open the Command Center URL in the CommServe Server, I am unable to login with the SSO, it’s always asking me to put my credentials. This doesn’t happen when I select Command Center option in the Commcell Console.I don’t know what configuration is missing, or what should I do fix this. Has anyone experienced something like this?We are using 11.28 (2022E) with MR87. Thanks.

Hi, We have setup a Commvault Media Agent to backup VMs using HotAdd transport mode.The setup works but its average throughput is less than ideal.The below is the setup of the Media AgentDirectly FC connected to a LTO-8 tape library with 4 FC drives 16 CPU cores 32 GB memory With the same above SPEC in our Netbackup environment, it can achieve an average throughput of 300MB/Sec, or 1TB/Hour. However, this Commvault Media Agent could only achieve around 500 GB/Hour, which is only half of what its potential should be. That being said, in Netbackup, we did increase its Number_Data_Buffers and Size_Data_Buffers to maximise its performance, so I’m wondering if there are similar parameters in Commvault that I can tweak to make it run faster ? Thanks,Kelvin

As per KB 67279 https://ma.commvault.com/Article/Details/67279, when instance validation fails for SQL iDA, the job gets queued until you fix the account. How do we change this behavior and turn this feature off? We need the job to fail in this case, as we are an MSP and have automation built off of the failures of these jobs.  If the job stays queued forever, it will never generate a ticket for us and won’t get fixed.  In fact, I found two jobs which were queued since June/July because of instance validation failing.I do not want any jobs to queue, unless I turn on queueing options in Control Panel.

Good morning people, everything fine?Eventually this Completed w/ one or more errors message appears and when I look at the logs, it only appears in the description: Unable to make a backup copy of folders [0] and files [81].What can this be? Was the copy successful? or is this normal?

Team, I’m trying to maximize resources for O365 data protection. Can the Index Server role be added to an Azure vm that is performing the Access Node role ? CI is being used and I am aware I may need to scale up the vm resources. The data is being protected by an on-prem library and aux copied to an S3 library. Thank you!

Hi,is it supported to install a Linux CS and the MA on the same hardware?Kind RegardsFlorian Kaiser

Hello All. Thank you in advance for your assistance. For a selective tape copy I need a means to ‘guarantee/force’ only Fulls from a given month are written to a single tape. Is there a way to do this ?  I would be interested in knowing how to ‘guarantee/force’ only jobs from a given month onto a set of tapes as well.  

We recently moved from on Prem email to cloud, and with the move the deleteClientAuthorization workflow stopped working. I know we have to reconfigure the Email Approval settings (image below) but not really sure what server to define there. Tried outlook.office365.com and made sure the account we are using has IMAP enabled but still doesn’t work.  Anyone here has this configuration on their environment? Any other tweak we need to change on the user account/user mailbox for it to be able to login using IMAP?Appreciate any idea that anyone thinks be helpful in this scenario. Thanks in advance.

i can't use the  Disk Library Growth Trend report any more, he just show me the last day, although i set 7days ore any other time period.Unfortunately the link fore uninstall and download  a recent version from store is not working any more.https://community.commvault.com/storage-and-deduplication-49/showing-library-storage-use-over-time-1069has any one a idea how to fix or wehre i can download a new version? Moritz

We run 11.20 CV. Need to restore a vm and it fails because we just recently updated vmware to vsphere 8.0 Will upgrade commvault to 11.32, but it will take some time untill we do. Meanwhile need to restore a vm and restore fails. What is the best workaround? Can we create a temporary older dummy host of older vmware version?

I had to turn off backing up of a specific VM utilizing the “do not back up” option in the ellipsis drop down.   I would like to turn backing up back on.   How do I do that?Product: MetallicHypervisor: VMwareVM OS: Windows 2019Hosted in: Azure VMware Solution

  CV is configured with a cluster ndmp client and the nodes for the cluster are added in the ndmp client configuration. There are 6 physical nodes in the cluster. Source netapp is an a700 and the destination netapp is a FAS8700.Issue:   For a backup copy job hundreds of jobs running but only a max of 36 transfer data. Hundreds of jobs trying to make a connection to the filer, but they can’t.  These jobs are each grabbing a stream but only 36 at a time are moving data. Increasing streams helps but then more backup copy jobs that can run launch and consume streams.There is a snap primary, storagegrid backup copy, vault replica copy,  and streaming data protection jobs that are very behind because of the supposed concurrent session limit (36 ?) from the source a700: streams keep being eaten up by backup copy jobs, but only 36 move data concurrently, thereby causing jobs for other copies to not run including the snap primary source copy for the storage

We were thinking to try out the Commvault containers images in combination with Tanzu, but we would like to provision by making use of an authcode instead of username and password. Can't really find if this is possible and which attributes I should use to populate the authcode. 

any help

We want to install the commvault client automatically on a new linux server.We are using the linux_commvault.tar, extracting it to a temporary folderand copying our custom default.xml to that folder.The installation of the subclient is working as expected.What we are missing - how to define the StoragePolicy in this config ?We just defined the 'storagePolicyName' but it did not work.What is missing? The default.xml file (with jinja2 variables as a placeholder):<?xml version="1.0" ?><CVInstallManager_ClientSetup Focus="Instance001" JobID="0" OEMID="1" Operationtype="0"> <ClientAuthentication> <userAccountToLogin domainName="" password="" userName=""/> </ClientAuthentication> <CommServeInfo networkGateway="{{ commvault_hostname }}"> <CommserveHostInfo clientName="" hostName=""/> </CommServeInfo> <clientCo

Dear can you please help me on this i am getting this on version running 11.28.68,Error Code: [91:145]Description: Unable to write data to the Virtual Disk [[NFS1] DENEUPRINT02_DR/DENEUPRINT02_DR.vmdk]. Please ensure that the proxy is able to communicate with the virtual machine host and that there is sufficient disk space available. Details: [One or more errors occurred while processing the request. (ERROR_ERRORS_ENCOUNTERED.774), Failed to write to vmdk (W32.774) (CV.0x1)]Source: deneucvma02, Process: vsrstNote: sufficient disk space is available

Hi,we use Commvault Simpana 11.20.36 and we have two Virtual Agents to backup our vSphere VMs.On the first enviroment the transport mode for VMWARE is set to auto.In the reports i can see that the transport mode for backup handles out SAN, the other enviroment only NBD.https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=32037.htmWhat can be the reason that the one environment does not save in san mode?Could it be a reason that in san zoning the esxi hosts of each cluster cannot see the media agent?RegardsDennis 

I have a question concerning Windows update on a Commserve.What is the best option:1. Use windows update assistant?2. Manually install al windows updates? I prefer to use Windows update, is there a Commvault Best Practice?How do you install Windows update on a Commserve? 

 any idea on the below error 

we have bandwidth issues so we are trying to get another link for Metallic Recovery Reserve for Commvault, EMEA, Azure Cool Tier traffic , trying to find the destination address for the traffic for the region Metallic Recovery Reserve for Commvault, EMEA, Azure Cool Tier

Hello,Could anyone share their experience with using commserve hardware refresh?https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/4760_commserve_hardware_refresh_workflow.htmlIs this workflow using LiveSync to perform migration? What level of privileges “domain user” needs to have to rename/add new server to the domain? Should it be domain admin? And also regarding the user for Media Agent, the documentation mentions commandDRRestore.exeto restart the workflow if it fails, does that mean that Media Agent has to be on Windows server? Considering Media Agent chosen in the form is on Linux server, if Linux Media Agent can be used at all, can regular user with sudo access be provided or does it have to be root?How to deal with ProductionCS SQL SA user Password?