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Hello,I have about ten virtual machines (windows machines), I have to set up virtualization (VMware) on Comcell. Could you send some links related to virtualization setup on Commvault server?Best regards,Elizabeta  

I have a media agent installed on sparc with SunOS 5.11 operating system on it, and it does not have DDB MediaAgent role assigned, thus i cannot create local deduplication database partition. Is there a way to assign a DDB MediaAgent role to this media agent?

Someone on my team wanted to try to add a new Tape Library to the environment using Command Center.  I had never done this in Command Center before, so I watched the user go through the steps.  We found that it had created the library and the storage pools.  But we could not find any way to create barcode patterns or to create another scratch pool from the Command Center.We are an MSP and this is an essential step in being able to use the library.We then tried to create the barcode patterns and other scratch pools from the CommCell Console.  We created the entities but then found we could not associate it to the pool/plan.It appears that the option to change the scratch pool is greyed out in this case.Is it expected that you cannot edit the scratch pool when the library/storage policy/plan is created from the Command Center?  Or are we missing something here?Furthermore I was expecting a much more user-friendly approach to adding tape to the

So this is deployment 3 of 3 this week. And the first two have gone flawless. Pointed out some notes and documentation errors to the Commvault staff as well. However, this 3rd one is giving me grief. I am receiving a Failed to validate cluster please check the cvmanager.log for details.Ok, So - Note that all three nodes are green with Checks for status. So those are fineThe logs - this is where it gets weird. I have checked all three nodes /opt/commvault/logs/cvmanager.log - is blank. Theres nothing is there. I even tried to tailf the log file during the install and it just sits . So there is nothign being written to the logs.Now what? Well i burned like 4 hours trying to solve this so i just blew them away- reimaged all 3 nodes and started over. Here I am- Same things with fresh installs. I checked NTP and date/time is all gtg as well. What else should I be checking? Network is all working- I can hit all IP’s and ssh , iscsi etc is GTG.  

Hi,we have an old Citrix XenServer cluster with 2 VMs.On this cluster there was a Commvault proxy running for backing up the VMs in the cluster.Now it seems that the storage have a problem. Actually rebuild is running but i don’t know if that works.Last backups running fine…..but is it possible to restore a VM without proxy? Filebrowse works fine and i can restore files and folders but not my complete VM.Any ideas how i can restore this VM? Actually the VM backup is on my B2D store.RegardsDennis

Hi, more time when server are fully loaded, when i restore guest file from a vm backup and on restore process i use DOWNLOAD from web console and i have “error” session disconnect.In this situation the web browser not download restored file, but from console i see restore process complete.i suppose that are the timeout of commandcenter session but the file processed are store in a temporary  folder of commserve?Thanks

Hello team Where i can find info about how “last seen loaction” mechanism works?What adapter will check?WHat happen if user enable VPN?

Hello team, this is regarding to article >  Office 365 Deprecation Notice: Basic Authentication  currently there are couple of basic authentication protocols have been disabled and our customer use basic auth and need to identify to which protocol out of list is Commvault use to backup Exchange online  thanks  

I have LTO 7 tapes from another Commcell that I’d like to format and use in our new Commcell. Is it possible to Format / erase these tapes and import them into the new Commcell?

Hello all,I would like to discuss the different options for a CommCell separation:our customer is divided into different business units. Their licenses are currently installed in shared environments (commcell, mediaagents, disk and tape libraries, all shared). NOTE: deduplication is not used and would be enabled after the migration.Each business unit must now have an independent commcell.  So my first option would be asking Commvault to separate the licenses by business unit, perform a fresh install for each new commcell, and configure their respective clients. But old backup data (especially from tape) would remain at the original Commcell, which i must not depend on. Question:How could I move old backup data from the original CommCell to the new ones. This is moving some backup data to a new comcell, some other backup data to another new commcell and so on.Second option would be performing the Commcell MIgration pr

Please confirm whether we have supported CV plugin for vRA/vRO 8.X, I see the information in the URL -  https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/32458_vrealize_automation_support_for_vmware.html refers to vRA 7.X.  

Hi, I made a backup configuration of SAP Hana. But when I start backup I get an error like below. This error persists for a while. But then it starts taking backups. After a while, the last update time of the job I started due to this error is getting longer and the backup does not continue. I think it is related to the codes executed on SAP Hana and unfortunately my company does not have HANA Admin. Has anyone encountered this error?  Regards.Hamza. 

While trying to figure out how to gather BET for charging purposes I noticed that the size on disk as displayed both in Command Center and CommCell console for cloud libraries to be incorrect. I have opened a ticket for it and in particular referred to S3 buckets, but I was wondering it other customers see the same and if it also occurs on libraries using Microsoft Azure Storage or other types/vendors. Please comment in case you see identify the same. I noticed it while running FR26 and FR28 (2022e).

Please your valuable help, as I am trying to install commvault on the following client with the roles of: MediaAgent. FileSystem, File System Core. This client meets all the requirements correctly, but I get the following error: "Error: Failed to install File System Core with error code 0x80070643."I am also attaching the logs for your review.Thank you very much for your help. Blessings.  

long story short story we observe error “The parameter used for the current operation is not supported by the Operating System, OS Drivers or the underlying Hardware” in our environment  It started few months ago and from this time it is more and more extensive. It already “survived” few MR updates First thought that is connected with some backup types but it already spread to ddb backup or index backup ...also exist in FS backup or vmware backup ...Often see tat also inside AUX copies  or in livesync replication  Second thought that mine MA’s OS is guilty so we changed many MA’s from 2012r2 to 2016 or even 2019 ….not help ….also play with many options from OS which not help also Next thought went to base where we store backups which s CIFS shares on Synology (especially that no so long ago we changed OS on them to DSM7 (from previous DSM6) . Here we also checked many things as for example blocking to use SMB3 and use only SMB2

Planning/doing a HW and OS refresh for all CS’s. Best practice for security is to separate IIS from the CommServe if reading latest recommendations correctly. Does the Webserver require an instance of it installed for every CommCell it talks to?I read this thread on the topic but it doesn’t seem to speak to multi-instances.Also, referring to this webserver requirements page, I thought the concept of security was to separate the DB from IIS. That page infers that the DB must be installed on the Webserver???Can you guys clarify A) whether splitting IIS off requires MSSQL locally and B) multi-CommCell’s require separate webserver instances or VMs? 

Hello Commvault,Is there any option to proceed ad-hoc backup for a specific Azure VM?When I try to do this, I see that Commvault starts a backup for all Azure VM’s that are members in the group!So, Im looking a workaround to backup only a specific Azure VM, not all it’s group. Please for your feedback,Nikos

I recently updated v9 to v11 and the next day I got this error “62:224 Failed to get media information for the volume. Failed to mount media with unique ID” and the backup didn’t run as scheduled. I can’t even restore anything.

  I had enabled the enable reply via email and had updated the Email Approval details in the Workflow as mentioned in https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/60276_enabling_reply_via_email_for_userinput_activity.html Now the workflow is not sending the approval mail I’m getting the following error : javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Missing final ‘@domain’ in string “Test” As its a predefined workflow , I’m unable to find this Please help me where do we need to make the update 

Hi All,We are trying to change retention on Full jobs that ran over this weekend due to some requirement, we would like to know if we manually right click the job and change the retention on each Full job to “infinite”, will it also make the change to retention on the incremental jobs dependent on this full jobs?Based on commvault documentation they mention as below for incremental jobs.https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/58452_manual_retention_end_time_for_job.html“Important: The retention time specified here, applies only to the selected job and does not apply to any dependent jobs. Therefore, you might not be able to restore the data available in the dependent backup jobs. For example, if you select an incremental backup for manual retention, then any ass

So I’m trying to run a REST api call to get all current running jobs.  I’m ultimately try to get to the same state that the Command Center shows for it’s active jobs.I can run the following which gets me the active backup jobs, but does not show anything else:curl -ks --location --request GET "https://commserve/webconsole/api/Job?jobCategory=Active&jobFilter="The jobfilter options (https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/105923_jobfilter_parameter_values.html) don’t seem to  have an effect.  Setting ALLOPS doesn’t get everything (in fact hides running backup jobs).   I’ve tried using DDBOPS when there is DDB activity going on and that doesn’t give a response either.Is there something I’m missing here?My end state is just trying to determine at a point in time tha

Recently installed the commvault client on a linux file server. The admin of that server noticed that two files are taking up quite a bit of space on the boot drive. Files DCInc.cvf and DCTot.cvf which are in /opt/commvault/iDataAgent64/jobResults/2/2009. They are taking up nearly 18GB of space. I haven’t found a doc telling me what they are used for yet. Anyone have an idea what they are used for and if they will continue to grow? 

I hope I’m not asking an obvious question ...Scenario:Let's say we’re running Synthetic fulls on the weekend, incrementals daily/hourly on a Windows server that has Filesystem+MSSQL backups.  Suddenly (and without warning) on a Friday evening, the server is decommissioned by the owner (maybe it was thrown into a volcano, so it cannot be turned on for a final backup). We have incrementals all week for the server, but no recent last full to back up to tape.Is there a way (or any gotchas, or special settings to properly do this) to roll all these incrementals up into  Synthetic full jobs (for each subclient) if the underlying server (and CommVault client installation on that server) no longer exists? Isn’t a Synthetic full basically just a rollup of the incrementals already in commvault and in theory we shouldn’t need the client or server to exist to roll them up into a Syn full?

I cannot use the client list because we have duplicates with the same hostname. I need a query or even a rest api call that can get this information. thanks.Chris.

I have a customer who has 15 million files in a CIFS share and the size of each share is 2TB.   They have about 111 shares that we need to backup via CIFS in Commvault. Customer has two XL Windows media agents running 11.28.24.  Both media agents are also use as access nodes.   We ran a backup with the default setting, and it took about 40+ hours to complete a full backup on a share.   We adjusted the data readers from 4 to 25 to 50 and even to 100.  We’re still not getting the time we need to meet RPO.   Incremental are also taking too long to complete.  Last one finished at 17 hours with 25 data readersQuestion is what is Commvault’s recommendation with backing up  large number of small files for a CIFS environment?    Also SnapDiff is not supported in this environment since they are running ONTAP 9.10.1P5. Block based and Snapshot are also not an option here. Thanks in advance!