Commvault Cloud Topics

What is Commvault's direction for correctly backing up vCenter Server Appliance [VCSA] and to include the Content Library metadata and library contents? The library contents are stored on a vSphere datastore and may include any type of file, including VM Templates Folders (containing .vmtx, .vmdk, .vmsn, .nvram files), .ova, .ovf, .iso, and other file types. So it would seem there needs to be a special backup subclient created to include all of the above contents (not just the Virtual Server Agent [VSA] default subclient).Perhaps VMware publishes the API and Commvault has a configured the VSA for this task? But I can't find any documentation in Commvault’s extenstive Expert documentation site.More background: Recently we had reason to backup and restore the vCenter 7.0 U2 VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) during a new vSphere installation with Cisco and VMware support. At their direction I used the VMware built-in VCSA Backup/Restore functionality. After restoring, notic

Hi,Following the Metallic guide for SharePoint Custom Configuration where there are instructions for registration of the SharePoint App-Only principal. This approach is outdated and only used for specific cases, see this link for details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/security-apponlyNow to my question - as we only use SharePoint Online only and the guide is from 2021, are we still required to register the SharePoint App-Only principal or will we be fine with the Azure AD App registration only?

Hi All,I have a short question. there is an Alert Called: Metallic Cloud Storage Service which sends mails like this: Comments: [Metallic Cloud Storage Service] license will get expired in [xx] days. Please call the support hotline of your software vendor.License Expired: NoNumber Of Days Left For License Expiration: xx NOTE: Start your renewal process to avoid data loss. The data you have stored will get deleted after 30 days from the expiration. You will not be able to recover the data once deleted. I did not find an eventlog entry and i also did not find an hint in the lic sum report.  is this alert the only point where i can track this info ? 

Hey guys. We are trying to restore a backup from a Mongo Cluster database, but its getting stuck to read files from NFS created on Commvault client. Could you please help us again? Here is the log. Notice this “isdbgrid” error too. Tks!  

Hi , When you show the ‘ User Logged In ‘  from windows  ‘ view’  from the commcell,   Many users are always connected from  1min to 12 Days. i see the Name ( msnet\aln8800)  the host name ( Ip xxx) Logged in ( 9 Nov 2022) Idle time ( 13Days - and console type  (  GUI or ADMIN CONSOLE ) I can’t disconnected  the 33 users  because the option is  in ‘Grey’ colorThanks Dan Disconnecting a User (commvault.com) 

Hi Team, We have horizontal scaling enabled on our setup and i am going to add partition(new drive) on the DDB, do i need to add partition on all the DDB’s like VM , Database , files 

Hi All, we are using Access Node and MediaAgent (FREL) 2022E . The docu says: Automatic OS updates: Select this option to enable automatic OS updates.By default, automatic updates are applied daily for security updates. To modify the security level, perform the following steps after the File Recovery Enabler has been deployed: That was the reason why we are using 15 of these proxy in our wxrail enviroment.  The Update is failing because the FREL is behind an firewall.  I opend an Case 221121-292 to find out what we need but the awnser was….. For internet access, on FREL machine you can open port 80 - HTTP and 443 - HTTPSThan i asked for the urls and the awnser…..  Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide the exact URL's. I confirmed this with Tier 2 as well. This needs to be looked into with the help of

Hello,I am trying to backup an sql server (not clustered)I can’t see the databases when I try to discoverThe dba creates a service account with permissions needed based on commvault documentationDo you know where I can check some logs to troubleshoot that ? thank you 

 Hello Experts, Firstly, please accept my apologies for my lengthy post.  I need your assistance with a problem we're having while performing granular data recovery of VM data from Azure Library. We have VSA backups with extended retention in an Azure cloud library (hot+Archive tier) that are shared by two Windows media agents. Attempting to recover data from a File Server instance.This file server has multiple virtual drives (vollumes), with three drives (C: E: H: each drive less than 1 TB) on one datastore and two more on another datastore (S: V: - with S: volume of 10 TB and V: volume of 5 TB). This VM/Subclient is backed up with intellisnap, and the backup is then copied to Azure.When attempting to browse through the "Files and Folders" option from the Azure backup, the VSA subclient fails with the error " Browse failed due to error while mounting virtual machine."I have already completed a recall index and Reca

Hi If media is moved to this group, are there any circumstance where the tape can be written to? with any sort of data I’d always assumed tape in this group was safe from any form of write 

Good Day everyone,we’re operating a remote location with a Windows-Server as a network-Gateway between Clients that have no connectivity to CS and Commserver. (Not the OVA)All Clients (Windows Servers) are installed decoupled with just the Windows Core Agent.Remote Customers clicked a powershell on 50 different Servers that were installed like this: & C:\temp\CVtemp\Setup.exe /silent /installand they registered also via the script:$name = (hostname).tolower()& 'C:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\Base\SIMCallWrapper.exe' -optype 1000 -cshost CSFQDN -clientname $name -Connectioninfo PROXYFQDN:8403 -user 'clientregister' -password 'PASSWORD' -ClientGroup 'REMOTELOCATION_22'Then the Fileagent was pushed automatically seconds after register (never seen this before as well) via commcell console...Out of the blue the whole registration stopped working and I see this in the simmcallwrapper log on th

I have old cloud location appear in compliance lock, when i go to my cloud storage is not appear, how can i remove this storage from compliance lock?

Can anyone help that how to disable seal deduplication?

Hi All, Was documenting about the WORM activation on our cloud storage, from different threads here and using the documentation. Came across different questions, which I hope will get some answer through this topic.1 - On the link that follows, it’s stating that “Note: Once applied, the WORM functionality is irreversible”.Does that mean when we activate the WORM on the storage through the workflow, we cannot change the retention ? We wanted as a first time test the WORM, with the setting of the retention of one storage policy copy on the storage pool as a test with 1 day only. Does that mean that we cannot change the retention of the workflow to something else ? Let's say 15 days. 2 - Same from the link, since our storage pool is using deduplication, it’s

I’m running 11:28.24 and don’t initially mind if a suspicious file is identified. However if,after due investigation, I am satisfied that the identified file is okay, is there a way of marking to file ‘good’ so that the same suspicious file is not reported over and over again and thus risking the ‘cry wolf’ scenario? File Activity Anomaly Alert •    Description: A suspicious file Monitoring Criteria: (Event Code equals to 7:211|7:212|7:293|7:269|14:325|69:52)   

HiIs it possible to auto assign media to specific (spare) Media Group pools base on barcode numbering Even if ‘auto assignment’ is not possible, then when manually discovering media (eg for a single piece of unassigned/free media), can the ‘system’ not auto recognise the destination scratch pool base on barcode ranges(Barcode ranges and patterns have been setup under media management) 

Hi, i would like to remove all copy that going into drcommvault from all storage policy (Image Attached). Is there any proper step before deleting it to avoid any issue later on. 

Hi Team,  Greetings! We are trying to restore the DB from our azure-archive blob, and it is getting failed. i checked the logs and can see below error in it. is it something to do with commvault / azure end.  4064  17b8  11/16 16:05:17 267160 [cvd] ReadFile() - failed to read the remote file - K0P72A_Folder1/CV_MAGNETIC/V_16918/CHUNK_910913/SFILE_CONTAINER_022, error:  Message: This operation is not permitted on an archived blob.RequestId:b07cc10c-d01e-0031-1007-fac083000000Time:2022-11-16T22:05:17.4193091Z4064  6d4   11/16 16:05:17 267160 [cvd] ReadFile() - failed to read the remote file - K0P72A_Folder1/CV_MAGNETIC/V_16923/CHUNK_911089/SFILE_CONTAINER_001, error:  Message: This operation is not permitted on an archived blob.RequestId:ba057d1e-e01e-00f1-6207-fa38bd000000Time:2022-11-16T22:05:17.5051812Z 

Hi All,I have a bit of a challenge on my hands. I’m migrating a customer to the new SharePoint agent, but I cannot seem to find a way to effectively select the needed content. The situation is as follows the customer has 51K sites, but most of them are created by students, and should not be part of the backup. So we only want 1300 in the backup. In the previous agent I could do some magic with regex to make this happen. But I do not see a good solution in the new agent.Both the Mail and OneDrive agent give me the opportunity to work with groups, but the SharePoint agent only has all sites, all group sites and project sites. Or i have to click 1300 sites which is not feasible, I also looked of a json to do this, but ne new agent does not take the json format of the old agent so that does not seem to be a solution as well.  Anyone have any idea how I can do this, and possibly automate it so we can update the site content occasionally?

Hi @all, maybe this is a very easy question, but I didn’t found the solution for it.It’s about Windows Clients (File System) and Windows Cluster (File System).In the CommCell console from a cluster perspective, it is very easy to find out, which servers belong to it (right-click on “Properties” → “Advanced” → check tab “Cluster Group Configuration”). But what is the procedere to find out, if a specific client is member of any cluster? Many thanks in advance! BRJan

My company is planning to do a tech refresh on our aging data domain to a newer version. We also highlighted that we’re having backup slowness issues on some of our large Oracle databases & some NDMP backups. Our current configuration is backing up to a VTL located in our data domain & no compression or deduped are enabled from Commvault layer.Dell’s sales team advice us to purchase an additional license for DDBoost for the new Data Domain. This is because DDBoost will be able to perform a very good dedupe & compression rate from the source level before transferring it to our data domain, thus saving the time it took to transfer via network.However I’ve been checking around Commvault’s KB and looks like commvault only works with BoostFS & not DD Boost. I haven’t check with Dell yet regarding this. May I know has anyone implemented DDBoost on your environment for backing up databases/vm & NDMP? 

Actually we testing boostfs (Data Domain) with Commvault it’s possible to configure two MA in Grid store with Boost FS ?? 

Hi, as we are getting more Linux VM on our Nutanix AHV Environment, we just now deployed the Commvault FREL for AHV (Version 11.24).The deplyoment and the registration wasn’t to difficult and we got it up and running.But we still can’t browse a Linux VM, everytime we try to access the VM, we get the following error message: “"Browse failed due to error while mounting virtual machine: Failed to retrieve VM information from Index Cache."”We checked the connection between FREL, VSA and MediaAgent and they can communicate without any problemsThe Brwose.log on the MediaAgent is showing this error: 21368 1c74  10/18 11:06:41 ### BrowseRequestHandler::processBrowseRequest() - START - browse request with worker id [5722]21368 1c74  10/18 11:06:41 ### RESTOREIDX browse accessing index 'E:\CV_IndexCache\CV_Index\2\778\1666037071'21368 1c74  10/18 11:06:41 ### RESTORE restore: all components indices required are

I want to classify certain subclients in a Virtualization client using tagI see that we can add tags at subclient levelFor ex: certain subclients would belong to Application : Group Asome are in Group B, some are in Group C  With this I want to run Backup summary report using that tags, there will be 3 reports each for Group A, B and C I don’t see an option to achieve this I’m not able to segregate/ select subclients in report using subclient tags. Also while creating client computer group , we can have automatic mapping with criteria Clients with tagsbut there is no option to create a group with subclients with tags  

Hi,We are restoring big SQL Server database - almost 10TB. But at 95% task failed with error:Query Result [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ExecutionFailureException:Could not upgrade the metadata for database '***' that is enabled for Change Data Capture. The failure occurred when executing the action 'sp_cdc_create_populate_stored_procs'. The error returned was 208: 'line 1, state 6, Invalid object name 'cdc.sp_insdel_1125019189'.'. Use the action and error to determine the cause of the failure and resubmit the request. RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 0 pages in 175.387 seconds (0.000 MB/sec). An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.].After resume pending job next error was:Query Result [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ExecutionFailureException:The backup or restore was aborted. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally. Cannot continue the execution because the session is in the kill state. A severe e